Word: leukemias
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...both animals and humans. A team of veterinarians and cancer researchers headed by Dr. William D. Hardy Jr., 33, of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has just reported in Nature that among cats, at least, one animal can infect another with the virus that causes leukemia...
...Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) was first identified in 1964 by a Scotsman named William Jarrett; it has since been determined that FeLV can be found in 90% of all cats with leukemia-like illnesses. But this is the first large-scale study showing that it could be spread from one cat to others. That fact is significant both for veterinary and human medicine. Leukemia occurs in cats about 2½ times as often as it does in man. Furthermore, says Hardy, "dogs and cats live with us. They are under the same household stresses and are exposed to the same...
...rheumatism. But there was considerable speculation that his flabbiness and frailty were really due to radioactive cobalt treatments for a disease thought to be cancer of the bone marrow. Lending some credence to this rumor is the fact that one of his physicians, Professor Jean Bernard, is a leading leukemia specialist...
...between Freud and Marx, Fanon flung himself into the opening phase of the Algerian revolution and became one of the FLN's chief pamphleteers and theorists. He fell sick, journeyed to Moscow for a cure, but was eventually told by Soviet specialists that the only hope for his leukemia lay in Washington, D.C. In the National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda, Md., weeks before he died in 1961 at age 36, he received the first copies of his last and most revolutionary book, The Wretched of the Earth. The FLN had his body flown to Tunis and buried...
...Doctors had experimented with bone-marrow transplants in the mid-'50s, primarily to combat leukemia. But their efforts proved generally unsuccessful. Immunologically sound bone marrow contained cells that recognized the recipient of this gift as "foreign." The new cells, in a phenomenon known as "graft v. host" reaction, thus rejected the host, producing lymphocytes capable of reacting with and destroying his tissue. In fact, the reaction, combined with infection and other factors, could prove fatal to the recipient whose immune system was either weak or absent...