Word: leukemias
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...from class plays to graduations. But last week more than 500 parents were gathered there for a very grim purpose. School officials, acting on reports from parents alarmed by an apparently high incidence of cancers in the town, had compiled a list of eleven residents recently afflicted either with leukemia or Hodgkin's disease and asked state health authorities to investigate. Now the townspeople were assembled to hear the findings...
...news was not good. Dr. Ronald Altman, chief epidemiologist for the state's department of health, revealed that Rutherford residents had suffered 32 cases of leukemia and related cancers during the past five years. The eleven cases of Hodgkin's disease, he said, were more than would have been expected in a town with Rutherford's 20,000 population. The total number of leukemia cases (13) was not unusual, he went on, but the distribution of the cases by age range was. A town of Rutherford's size could normally expect .58 cases of leukemia...
...years when Jud comes to visit. Scottie wants them to spend time together, but Jud counters each of his father's jokes and suggestions with icy, detached monosyllables, preferring to journey off to a museum exhibit alone. Scottie's doctor arrives and breaks the news: the clown has leukemia. Now the approaching reality of hospitalization and his possible imminent death evokes more mature feelings of parental guilt--Scottie resolves to try and win over his son. Jud, whom the doctor tells over Scottie's protests, agrees to try to understand the man who never was his father, only his "eight...
Thomas Najarian, a local hematologist, said yesterday his research showed that the incidence of leukemia in nuclear submarine workers exposed to low levels of radiation is twice the national average...
...University held a memorial service yesterday for David R. Ecker '81, who died of leukemia on February 26. Over 100 of Ecker's friends and classmates attended the afternoon service...