Word: leukemias
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...much radiation at one body site can cause skin conditions resembling severe burns or local cancers. Widely distributed over the body so that it penetrates much of the blood-forming marrow, excessive radiation can cause leukemia. If it strikes the gonads (ovaries or testicles), excessive radiation-i.e., by best estimate, beyond 10 roentgens*-can cause mutations in the genes, which, in turn, may mean deformities in the patient's descendants. Dangers, by sites...
Prenatal. X rays of pregnant women may endanger the fetus. Oxford University researchers report that among the mothers of British children who had died of leukemia X rays of the pelvis during pregnancy (necessarily exposing the entire fetus to radiation) had been twice as common as among the mothers of other children. This was no conclusive finding, but a warning flag against haphazard X rays of the pregnant...
...think you would want me to be perfectly frank with you," said the doctor to the Rev. Benjamin Harrison Duncan, editor of the weekly Arkansas Baptist. That day, nearly a year ago, 66-year-old Baptist Duncan learned that he had leukemia (cancer of the white blood corpuscles) and perhaps had only a few months to live. In an editorial last week, Duncan told his readers how it feels for a minister to live under a death sentence...
Died. John Francis Griffiths, 57, onetime (1941-46) cultural attache to the U.S. embassy at Buenos Aires, who in 1948 was accused by Dictator Juan D. Peron, of financing an assassination plot against Peron and his wife Eva, was later cleared by Peron in a general amnesty (1953); of leukemia; in Buenos Aires...
Died. Francis John Myers, 54, plodding, Fair-Dealing onetime (1945-51) Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, three-time (1939-45) Congressman (West Philadelphia), Senate whip in the 81st Congress and floor leader for Adlai Stevenson at the 1952 Democratic National Convention; of leukemia; in Philadelphia...