Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study on which the recommendation was based -- a review of AIDS infections among leukemia patients at New York City's highly respected Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center -- did "not indicate the need for any new public health advisory," the group said. For years transfusion recipients have been considered at only a slightly higher risk for AIDS than the population at large, but the danger is substantially greater among hemophiliacs and some leukemia patients who regularly require massive transfusions. Says Dr. Donald Armstrong, one of the authors of the Sloan- Kettering study: "We just documented something which had been assumed...
...much blood did the patient receive? The leukemia patients in the Sloan- Kettering study received an average of 164 transfusions over a period of six months to two years. Patients who do not have a blood-related health problem receive an average of three pints of blood. Even among those massively transfused leukemia patients, only 16 out of the 204 subsequently tested positive for exposure to AIDS...
...Sidney Farber, who founded the cancer institute in 1942, treated Mayer during his battle with leukemia, until Mayer's death in 1947. Farber, a Harvard pathologist and physician, was the first doctor to use chemotherapy successfully against childhood leukemia...
...Jimmy Fund show got its start in 1970, when a Harvard junior was hospitalized for an injury, and he met some children receiving treatment for leukemia. Three weeks later, that student, John M. Petkevich '71--who became the 1971 American Men's champion-put together the first "Evening with Champions...
...Gallo and his co-workers, as well as a group of Japanese researchers, showed for the first time that a retrovirus is responsible for cancer in humans. The culprit is now called human T-cell lymphotropic virus, type 1 (HTLV-1), which causes a rare and extremely aggressive adult leukemia that occurs mainly in the southern islands of Japan and parts of Central Africa and the Caribbean...