Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Business, School Professor William L. White, an expert on corporate financing decisions and author of leading textbooks on banking, died Monday of leukemia...
DIED. Leonard Rose, 66, world-renowned cellist, admired for the technical mastery and elegance of his performances in solo work and chamber groups; of leukemia; in White Plains, N.Y. Rose was a brilliant, dedicated teacher whose students included the virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell and many cellists in America's top symphony orchestras...
Since then about 20 different oncagenes have been isolated from viruses that cause leukemia and other forms of cancer in animals such as chickens, mice, cats and monkeys. And once an oncagene is identified, researchers are able to discover its products within a few weeks, Frikson says...
...Great advances have been made inreducing cancer deaths without oncagene research," Erikson says. "For example, many forms of leukemia are treatable now even though we don't understand...
Haseltine and his associates figured out how a leukemia virus--known as HTLV-1--takes control and infects blood cells. They believe that a similar process is at work when HTLV-3 viruses--which is believed to be the cause of AIDS--attack cells. And they think that some genetic material in this family of viruses is the culprit...