Word: leukemias
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Soblen, a New York psychiatrist, was convicted in July of wartime espionage for the Soviet Union. Judge William B. Herlands sentenced him to life imprisonment. Soblen, 61, has advanced lymphatic leukemia and a life expectancy of less than a year. He claims he is innocent...
...sharply worded telegram pointed to the large numbers of still-births, cases of leukemia, bone cancer, and mutations that will result from continuing bomb tests, and reminded Khrushchev that the disastrous effects of the bomb will be shared by the Russian people at an "enormous cost...
Phony Food. The theory behind 5-fluorouracil is disarmingly simple. Rapidly multiplying cancer cells consume a more than average supply of ''metabolites"-foods that have been altered chemically in the body. In some types of leukemia it had been shown that malignant cells can be fooled into accepting a phony metabolite, or "antimetabolite." When it was shown in 1954 that solid cancers have an abnormal appetite for the metabolite called uracil, the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Charles Heidelberger set about making a phony variant of uracil. With Dr. Robert Duschinsky of Hoffmann-La Roche...
...innocent and the unarmed, in an aged judge, two adolescent boys, one Negro, the other white, and a dying middle-aged druggist. J. T. Malone, the druggist, is a drab fixture in the small Southern town of Milan who has emptied his life filling prescriptions. His approaching death from leukemia is the biggest thing that ever happened to him. For a time, he and his gnawing terror promise to dominate Clock, but he is destined for a fictional fate worse than death-to become a symbol of the brevity of life and life-in-death. His friend, ancient Judge Clane...
...Jack Soble spoke, the haggard defendant, charged with conspiring to gather and transmit U.S. defense secrets-a crime punishable by death-looked away and reached for a pill. He is, his doctor says, dying of leukemia...