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Cancer researchers who believe that leukemia in man, and especially in children, must somehow be caused by viruses-as are similar diseases in fowl, mice, rats, cows and horses-got new and suggestive evidence last week...
Though no one has yet been able to isolate a human leukemia virus and grow it in a test tube, one indirect way of establishing its presence is to find antibody against it. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Steven O. Schwartz of Chicago's Hektoen Institute and Northwestern University reported that he had found antibody, apparently against leukemia, in a dozen families. Beginning in 1957, the Chicago suburb of Niles had eight fatal cases of leukemia in children who either attended the same school or had siblings and playmates who did. There had been one other case nearby...
...Schwartz's team drew blood samples from 57 members of the leukemia victims' families, and from 52 people who were not known to have leukemia and were not known to have been exposed to it. None of the normal comparison subjects had antibody that could be linked with the suspected leukemia virus. But 19 of the parents, brothers and sisters of leukemia victims did have antibody. More of them may have had it, Dr. Schwartz believes, in tiny, undetectable amounts...
...splashed into headlines at 18 with a surprise engagement to 34-year-old Oil Heir Richard Cowell, cancelled it when Daddy objected only to elope with Cowell, divorced him at 20, and finally settled down at Sun Valley Lodge in Idaho as the wife of the assistant manager; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
While the present level of radioactivity is still below the "permissible" limits established by the Radiation Council, the Council estimates that the radioactive debris from the 1962 series may produce as many as 1,450 cases of bone cancer and leukemia. Further, 110-139 babies with gross physical or mental defects will be born in the next generation; 3000-5000 such babies will appear in future generations...