Word: leukemias
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...theory that viruses are to blame for some forms of human cancer, especially leukemia, was strengthened last week by striking evidence gained from experiments with human volunteers. Most notable: the tests gave reason for increased hope that it may be possible to prevent leukemia with a vaccine...
That viruses cause some forms of mouse leukemia has long been accepted, but years of the most exacting research failed to turn up viruses in human victims of a similar disease, acute leukemia. Probably, reasoned Dr. Steven O. Schwartz of Chicago's Hektoen Institute, this was because the virus was somehow modified in the patient's body...
...Choice. The problem was to get the virus in its original state from tissues where the modification did not take place. Dr. Schwartz's choice: the human brain. He took fluid from the brains of patients who had died of leukemia, removed the cells, injected what was left into mice. Many, even in strains that seldom get the disease spontaneously, developed leukemia (TIME, July 27). But rabbits seemed to make antibodies to neutralize the virus. Could the human species do as well...
...equivalent readings in food and air. ¶ Insurance against the costs of cancer care was offered in a simplified policy by New York's Standard Security Life Insurance Co., with maximum total benefits of $10,000 ($3,000 in any one year). Cancer is broadly defined to include leukemia and Hodgkin's disease. Main argument for a separate policy (since other forms of health insurance may offer as good coverage) : the belief that fear of the high costs of cancer care keeps many victims from their doctors until the disease is too advanced for effective treatment. ¶ Dishpan...
Once More was completed last July, two months before Actress Kendall's death, at 33, of leukemia. Many of her scenes were shot while she had a high fever. Nevertheless, she gives in her last picture what is possibly her funniest film performance. At one point, while Brynner is chasing her around his den, she peers at him through the strings of a harp, and with the merest curl of the upper lip contrives to suggest that she is a caged and ferocious lioness. At another, bedded with a banging hangover, she suddenly gets a mad glint...