Word: leukemias
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...Leukemia's estimated rise to more than 15,000 new cases this year is also discouraging. But on the basis of overall progress, said Dr. Ravdin, "we are making challenging gains. Last year alone we saved some 44,000 cancer patients who would have died had they developed the disease ten years ago. We have the means at hand to save virtually all of the women who develop uterine cancer, and given ideal conditions, salvage those who develop cancer of the colon and rectum...
...nation with the world's second largest Catholic population (after Brazil), has none,* but one is in the making. This week in Rome, following Vatican approval of two miracles attributed to her intervention with God-one a medically inexplicable cure of cancer, the other a recovery from leukemia-Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, founder of the American branch of the worldwide order known as the Daughters of Charity, was enrolled among the beatified of the church. Attending the formal ceremonies at St. Peter's were more than 3,000 American pilgrims, including Cardinals Spellman and Ritter and 15-year...
Mice that show no signs of harboring a leukemia virus may develop the fullblown disease, and produce the virus plentifully, after they are exposed to X rays...
...safe transmission." One effective package design is like a tadpole: the virus uses its tail as a stinger to pierce the cell and inject the nucleic acid. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have just reported photographic evidence that this is the mode of attack used by a mouse leukemia virus...
...males and females may have an extra female sex chromosome. And this in turn may have surprising importance in mental deficiency, in which sex-chromosome abnormalities are now being detected more often. The cell studies are also tied in with some forms of cancer, especially a form of chronic leukemia...