Word: leukemias
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...Pacific beach near Tijuana, Mexico, Chad Green, a frail but lively three-year-old American boy, was happily digging into the sand last week and laughing at squirrels scampering near by, quite unaware that he is the subject of a dramatic medical and legal controversy. Chad is suffering from leukemia, and an argument is raging over who has the right to decide how he should be treated: his parents, Gerald and Diana Green, or state officials in Massachusetts responding to the advice of doctors...
...blond child with a winning smile, Chad began chemotherapy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in his home town of Omaha when he was 21 months old. Doctors there claimed that he was improving rapidly under their care and that the leukemia was in remission. But when they suggested radiation treatment for further protection, Green, who is a welder, and his wife moved to Massachusetts and placed Chad with Dr. John Truman, a noted specialist in pediatric hematology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Truman continued the chemotherapy...
...Greens, however, had found that the chemotherapy was a painful ordeal for Chad. The injections turned him at times into "a wild animal," his mother declared. Truman then gave her the chemicals in the form of pills, to be taken at home. When leukemia was again found in Chad's blood early in 1978, Mrs. Green reluctantly admitted that she had not been giving Chad his pills. "Chemotherapy doesn't cure," said Diana Green in desperation. Instead, the parents had been giving the boy Laetrile, a drug which is illegal for use in cancer treatment in Massachusetts...
Kenneth Lamoreaux grew up on his family's farm in the southwestern Utah town of Paragonah. One day in 1960, at age 15, he was diagnosed as having acute lymphatic leukemia. Ten days later he was dead. A cousin died of leukemia in 1963, another has suffered from thyroid cancer. One common denominator: proximity to more than 80 above-ground atomic-bomb tests held at the nearby Nevada proving grounds from...
...families that fallout from the testing posed a health hazard. Last week the residents' case was bolstered by a previously unpublished piece of evidence: a 1965 U.S. Public Health Service report on two southwestern Utah counties indicating that from 1950 to 1964 there were nine more deaths from leukemia than expected in a population of 20,000 (28 vs. 19). The study, uncovered by the Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, had long been ignored by the U.S.P.H.S. because, as its author admitted, the pattern of deaths was inconclusive. Another survey of the fallout area showed...