Word: leukemias
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...their dramatic look: two serious gents in jackets and matching goatees and, between them, a strong-featured young woman with long blond hair in bangs and a supple, powerful voice. That was Mary Travers, who died Sept. 16 at 72 in Danbury, Conn., after a long bout with leukemia...
...After a leukemia diagnosis in 2005, she underwent a seemingly successful bone-marrow transplant and tried to keep performing. She finally succumbed from complications after chemotherapy treatments. The flower of Peter, Paul and Mary has gone to graveyards, everyone, but her voice lives inside three generations of music lovers...
That love was first and foremost for Nicaragua's poor, out of whose ranks he'd risen. When a desperate father appealed for Arguello's help because he couldn't afford the expensive medical treatment to treat his 8-year-old daughter's leukemia, the fighter made the cause his own and tried to shame two Nicaraguan pharmaceutical companies into providing free treatment. When they hesitated, the champ came out swinging...
...actress - and Fawcett fooled her fans by becoming an excellent one - can find an arc of redemption through suffering. Fawcett was given a diagnosis of anal cancer in 2003 (the same year O'Neal came down with leukemia), and after a period of remission, it returned in 2007. She was the third of the original Charlie's Angels to suffer from cancer...
...idea of becoming a teacher. His father was a high school science teacher, and Rosenthal was tempted to follow in his father’s footsteps. But in Rosenthal’s junior year, his close friend William L. Dowling, Jr. ’59 died of leukemia. Dowling and Rosenthal lived one entryway apart in Dunster House. “In retrospect, it was one of the most significant events that probably focused me on what I wanted to do in life,” Rosenthal said of Dowling’s death. The experience inspired Rosenthal to pursue...