Word: leukemias
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...isolated town in the hills north of Africa's Lake Victoria would seem like an odd site for an international cancer conference. And the acute leukemia that now ranks as a major killer of U.S. children aged one to 14 is so rare in Africa that it would seem to have little in common with Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer of the jaw that is prevalent among children in tropical Africa. Yet last week top researchers from eleven countries journeyed to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to pool their knowledge of both diseases. Some temperate-zone doctors suspect...
Reflecting on the fact that some of the drugs that work so dramatically in Africa are also the best known weapons against leukemia. Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, said: "I am strongly persuaded that there is a close affinity between Burkitt's tumor and leukemia." But he was careful to note the difference in the effects of treatment. "The results here are really fantastic," he said. "There is nothing like this anywhere in the world. Long survivals, including apparent cure, after drug treatment for Burkitt's lymphoma are running...
Died. General Thomas Dresser White, 64, Air Force Chief of Staff, from 1957 to 1961; of leukemia; in Washington. An unrelenting advocate of ever stronger air power who fought vainly for the Air Force's experimental B70 supersonic bomber, General White felt that rigid reliance on missiles was "tantamount to the Maginot Line" and that the theory of mutual deterrence gave a false sense of invulnerability. "The only safe strategy," he said, was "imbalance-with a vast preponderance on our side...
...TONSILS. For adults and for all victims of leukemia or hemophilia, tonsillectomy is a major operation with grave risks. Dr. Cahan has performed several tonsillectomies by freezing; within three weeks after the ten-minute treatment, the tonsils simply wither away...
...author was a Negro intellectual who was born in Martinique and died at 36 of leukemia in a Washington hospital. A friend recalled: "He was still shouting and arguing with people on his deathbed." Educated in French medical schools, Frantz Fanon was assigned to an Algerian hospital in 1952. He quickly identified himself with the Algerian rebels, whose leaders were deeply influenced by Fanon's thinking on racism, colonialism and war, though shocked by his atheism. It was in his psychiatric work at Blida hospital-now renamed for him-that Fanon gained his insights into the minds of colonized...