Word: leukemias
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...that traditional infectious diseases of children are so well controlled, one of the commonest causes of death among U.S. children is acute leukemia. It appears most often between the ages of two and five, and it accounts for about a third of all childhood cancers. Though it affects cells of the lymphatic system, it rarely causes solid tumors and is regarded as a "cancer of the blood." What connection can this possibly have with a hideously deforming and quick-killing cancer of the jaw that afflicts African children? Researchers now think they know. The African disease offers the best chance...
Geographically Interesting. The link between these two seemingly unrelated diseases is suggested in the A.M.A. Journal by Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. In equatorial Africa, he points out, at least 40% of all childhood cancers are lymphatic, but they rarely take the form of leukemia and are almost invariably solid tumors. They are usually seen first in the jawbones (though they also attack other bones and internal organs) of children aged three to eight...
Through a morning drizzle, an ambulance was carrying Soblen-who is supposed to be mortally ill of leukemia-from Brixton Prison to London Airport. There he was to be put aboard a Pan American jet to New York; once in the U.S., he would at last begin serving the life sentence he got for turning national secrets over to the Soviets. But the ambulance never got to the plane: Soblen had swallowed a great wallop of barbiturates and collapsed on the way. Unconscious, he was rushed to Hillingdon Hospital-and his enforced return to the U.S. was off again...
...children died, 85 suffered permanent brain damage. An accompanying Journal editorial predicts that when statistics on the battered-child syndrome are complete, "It is likely that it will be found to be a more frequent cause of death than such well-recognized and thoroughly studied diseases as leukemia, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy...
...brother who had committed suicide five years before. The traveler was, in fact, Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, a psychiatrist, who last July was convicted in a New York federal court for spying for Russia. Appeals to higher courts, including the Supreme Court, had failed, and Soblen, weary, dying of leukemia, had jumped $100,000 bail and fled to Israel...