Word: leukemias
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...year-old. Usually treated as an outpatient, she had been kept in the hospital a few days because of a cold and swelling in her lymph nodes. She was much better after a blood transfusion, and would probably be home before New Year's Day. Toni has acute leukemia, commonest of the cancers and related disorders that annually kill more U.S. children than any other group of diseases...
...five years' earlier, Toni (a twin with a normal, healthy brother) would not have lived more than four to six months. As it is, she has been kept going since March by regular blood transfusions and a variety of drugs. Doctors can now point to youngsters with acute leukemia who are living happily and almost normally three years or more after the disease struck. A diagnosis of acute leukemia is still a sentence of death, but each discovery prolongs the reprieves that medicine can grant. Doctors hope that they may soon find a way to prolong the victims...
...approached. "I did nothing wrong." Already old in his late 50s, his spirit corroded by doubt, his neglected son a crippled invalid in the care of strangers, Gaston gazed at his dying wife and for the first time believed her, a lifetime too late. Last month Gaston died of leukemia...
...Regular Army, wartime commander of the XIX Corps in the Battle of the Bulge and in the drive across the Elbe, postwar comptroller of the Army and member of the National Security Training Commission, board chairman of Oklahoma City's American First Trust and Title Co.; of leukemia; in Washington...
...mysterious than the red or white cells are the blood's tiny platelets (one twenty-five-thousandths in. in diameter, 200,000 to the cu. mm.) Nobody knows quite how they work, but they are essential to blood clotting. When they are absent, as in certain types of leukemia the patient may die from internal bleeding through microscopic holes in the walls of blood vessels. Platelets, it was long feared, were too fragile ever to be preserved. But Dr. Tullis and his colleagues have found that by handling blood in nonwettable plastic vessels, and removing other clotting proteins, platelets...