Word: leukemias
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...more than 30 novels, who-following her 1931 bestseller and Broadway smash, Grand Hotel-took up film writing in Hollywood ("where, thank heaven, I failed, and so saved my life") and U.S. citizenship ("I fell in love with the country"), but never again equaled her first success; of leukemia; in Hollywood...
...sobering story, about the leukemia of the will that precedes the death of empires. The British acquired Singapore in 1819, when that great buccaneer of the East India Co., Sir Stamford Raffles, dickered the island away from the Sultan of Johore's heir. A little over 100 years later, Singapore still had the Raffles instinct for a deal, but it had lost his daring and his sense of destiny...
...Schwartz told an American Cancer Society meeting in Louisville last week. To get his evidence, he appealed to inmates of Cook County Jail, got 14 volunteers. "Since we are trying to find the answers to human leukemia, we must make tests in man," said Dr. Schwartz. "And we believed there was a minimum of risk to the prisoners." His research teams injected a leukemia victim's fluid into the prisoners' forearm four times, and twice took a pint of their blood...
Then the researchers took batches of identical mice. Into one group they injected the leukemic brain fluid. Virtually all of these developed leukemia. But a second group got an injection of purified serum from the prisoners' blood before the leukemic brain fluid. Only half of these got leukemia. Dr. Schwartz's conclusion: the prisoners, being healthy and not predisposed to leukemia, had reacted the way most normal human beings do, and had made antibodies against the leukemia virus in the brain fluid. These antibodies made their serum work like a crude vaccine, which protected half the mice...
...meeting were impressed because, if Dr. Schwartz's work can be duplicated and confirmed, it would mark a giant stride against a disease that now kills 12,000 Americans (most of them children) annually. But Dr. Schwartz agreed that the relationship of virus to disease in leukemia must be far more complex than in common illnesses such as smallpox, influenza, measles and polio; for one thing, leukemia is not infectious. Inherited susceptibility is essential, he believes, while hormones and X rays may be important controlling factors. So, he emphasized, a vaccine against human leukemia is still...