Word: leukemias
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...contemporary toxicologists were to conjure up a cause-and-effect grammar for lethal chemicals, asbestos would stand for lung cancer, benzene for leukemia, Kepone for sterility, vinyl chloride for cancer of the liver. The links between these chemicals and certain ailments are now clearly limned, in medical circles as well as in popular mythology. But the connections with diseases for other substances are merely suspicions and likely to remain so for a long time...
...U.C.L.A. findings may eventually help patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy. Methotrexate, used to treat leukemia and other cancers, is like most antitumor drugs: potent but harsh. It indiscriminately destroys rapidly proliferating cells, malignant and healthy alike. Among the healthy ones are those of bone marrow, which produce blood cells. The damage that methotrexate does to bone marrow effectively limits how much of it can be given to patients. Making the cells resistant to the drug's assault might give patients the ability to withstand more intensive therapy...
DIED. Ralph ("Shug") Jordan, 69, head football coach at Auburn University for 25 seasons (until 1975), and winner of more Southeastern Conference games than anyone but Alabama's Paul ("Bear") Bryant and Mississippi's John Vaught; of leukemia; in Auburn, Ala. Jordan had 175 wins, 83 losses and seven ties; though Bryant's Crimson Tide beat Jordan's Tigers 13 times in 18 years, Auburn's five wins were the most against 'Bama by any S.E.C. team...
...chemical whose vapors are known to be toxic. By the time OSHA was functioning in 1971, the Government and industry had agreed on a benzene standard of 10 parts per million (p.p.m.) in the air in workplaces. OSHA, concerned about new evidence that breathing benzene vapors could cause leukemia, slashed the standard in 1978 to 1 p.p.m. The American Petroleum Institute contended that OSHA was forcing industry to spend $500 million or more to meet a standard that it had not proved to be any safer than...
...ventures. In 1962 he left Lear, Inc. after the board of directors turned down his demands that the aircraft-instrumentation firm build jets. In 1967, when sales initially failed to take off, he sold Lear Jet Industries Inc. to the Gates Rubber Co. Two years before he died of leukemia in 1978 at age 75, Lear started a new firm, LearAvia, in Reno, to manufacture a turboprop corporate jet that he had designed. On his deathbed, Lear asked his wife Moya, now 65, and Company President Samuel Auld, 55, to use the proceeds from his estimated $100 million estate...