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...many forms of leukemia, the blood-cell factory inside the victim's bone marrow produces too many white blood cells, of the wrong kind, and too fast. To get the marrow back on a proper production schedule, medical investigators have tried many ingenious, drastic and daring experiments. Now five Paris doctors believe they have found a possible answer in the blood and bone marrow of a patient's relatives...
Most blood donors are selected for their good health and their freedom from sickness that might be passed along in a transfusion. Dr. Charles Gordon Zubrod of the National Cancer Institute has been looking for donors suffering from one form of leukemia and using their blood to treat victims of other forms of the disease. In another feat of hematology, blood from healthy donors is helping to save some leukemia victims from bleeding to death...
...Billion Cells. In the acute leukemia of childhood, drugs given to fight the cancer also cut down resistance to infection. One common infection, Dr. Zubrod said, exerts its deadly effects because the child lacks a form of white blood cell known as the granulocyte. The condition used to be 100% fatal. But the Government-sponsored Anti-Leukemia Task Force found that adult victims of a different kind of leukemia, the chronic myelogenous form, have a great excess of granulocytes. Some have donated blood from which up to 100 billion granulocytes have been extracted and given to a single child victim...
Spin the Platelets. Progress along these lines has already been made in supplying platelets-the tiny elements in the blood which enable it to clot-from healthy donors to leukemia patients threatened with uncontrollable hemorrhage. A healthy donor gives two pints of blood at a sitting, instead of the usual single pint. But while he is still on the table, high-speed centrifuges separate the platelets. Most of the rest of the blood (red cells, white cells and plasma) is returned to his veins at once. He can continue such donations twice a week for months on end. Al ready...
...Niles evidence, suggestive but not yet conclusive, is that leukemia viruses may be widespread. Most people develop antibody against the viruses and remain healthy. A few fail to develop antibody and get the disease-the researchers found no antibody in five leukemia patients still living...