Word: leukemias
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...only the most recent tragedy to befall the children of Howard Gossage, a brilliant, maverick advertising executive who created, among other shrewdly promoted schemes, the Beethoven sweatshirt and the International Paper Airplane Competition. He died of leukemia in 1969. Eben and Amy had a half sister, June, who was killed in an automobile crash, and their mother died last May of cirrhosis of the liver...
Folkman has done research on the tumor angiogenesis factor (IAF) which triggers blood flow release necessary for tumor growth, and Vallee has identified a link between a catalyst in the body and viruses known to cause leukemia in fowl...
...spectacular news story, the kind that in more innocent times used to be called a "scoop." The Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev was coming to Boston to be treated for leukemia, or so announced the Boston Globe earlier this month. Trouble was, the Russian leader never showed up. Last week it became clear that the Globe had been the victim of another grand old journalistic tradition: the hoax...
...Just as the resignation rumors were subsiding for lack of evidence, another one surfaced when an unidentified Communist diplomat in Warsaw was quoted as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a heart attack last month-just before he vanished from public view. Some Kremlin watchers favored yet another popular diagnosis: leukemia. A London Kremlinologist reported that Brezhnev had developed a "moonface," or puffiness of the cheeks and jowls, a typical side effect of cortisone treatment for some kinds of cancer...
...wild journalistic borsch of speculation. In Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East, newsmen variously reported that the 68-year-old Soviet party chief had been struck down by a staggering variety of ailments, ranging from abscessed teeth, bursitis, gout, influenza, pneumonia to heart attack and-most ominously-leukemia. The Boston Globe carried the electrifying tale that Brezhnev was momentarily expected to arrive at the Sidney Farber Cancer Center for treatment of this deadly blood disease. Despite Brezhnev's conspicuous nonappearance at Logan Airport, and vehement denials of the stories by directors of the Boston clinic as well...