Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After hearing of the breakthroughs achieved by Dr. Sidney Farber in the area of children's cancer, the Variety Club arranged a Ralph Edwards radio broadcast from the bedside of a young leukemia patient named Jimmy. Present at Jimmy's bedside were his idols, the members of the Boston Braves...
...last time they made this movie, a romance about a terminally ill cutie, they were smart enough to call it Love Story. Roberts' rapid ascendancy taught Hollywood that she could sell innocence, glamour, pluck. But not even the movies' most reliable female star since Doris Day could peddle leukemia -- particularly not to a summertime audience that wants only the bad guys to die. So Dying Young did just that, and Roberts' pristine rep got terminated...
...trouble with this story is its predictability. Act I: boy and girl meet querulously. Act II: they love rapturously, and that sends Victor's leukemia into remission. Act III: illness returns, love falters, but everyone eventually learns to face an unknowable future with a certain fortitude...
...Ayala family had launched itself upon a sequence of nervy, life-or-death adventures to arrive at that denouement last week. Anissa's leukemia was diagnosed three years ago. In such cases, the patient usually dies within five years unless she receives a marrow transplant. Abe and Mary Ayala, who own a speedometer-repair business, began a nationwide search for a donor whose marrow would be a close match for Anissa's. The search, surrounded by much poignant publicity, failed...
...most famous controversy over a spurned request led to the courtroom last year. Tamas Bosze, a Chicago bar owner, was told that only a marrow transplant could rescue his son Jean-Pierre, 12, from leukemia. The boy's only potential donors were twin half-siblings born out of wedlock to the father's former girlfriend. Bosze sued the woman in an attempt to compel her to have the children tested for tissue compatibility. She refused, and a court upheld her decision. Last November, Jean-Pierre Bosze died...