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Entering the summer, the 1997 season held the promise of a dreamier ending, namely another Ivy title run through the NCAA tournament. Now, with First Team All-America forward Emily Stauffer taking the year off following a bone marrow transplant to her brother, Matt, who has leukemia (see full story in Friday's Crimson), this team's challenge is to prove that last season was not a one woman show...
...LOWDOWN ON CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA In contrast to three previous U.S. studies, researchers now say that kids who live near high-tension power lines do not have a significantly increased risk of leukemia...
...next-door Nevada from 1951 to 1962 were not safe after all. President George Bush acknowledged as much in 1990, and since then the U.S. has paid $67 million to 1,338 of the "downwinders," many of whom live in Utah and believe their exposure to radiation caused leukemia and other ailments. An apparent victim was former Utah Governor Scott Matheson, who died of bone-marrow cancer a week before Bush's admission...
...grim lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a medical one: radiation kills on a sliding scale. High doses kill quickly and horribly, burning off skin and destroying intestines and other internal organs. Low doses kill more slowly, triggering leukemia and other cancers. From this knowledge, scientists deduced the rough formula that underlies virtually all nuclear safeguards written since 1945: even the smallest exposure to nuclear radiation is harmful, and as the exposure increases, so do cancers and deaths...
Others agree. Dr. Kent Holland, director of the Hemapheresis Center of the bone-marrow-transplant program at Emory University School of Medicine, is already using the CellPro procedure on young leukemia patients. "I don't have any other device that works as well to offer these people," he says. Another supporter is former Senator Birch Baye, who co-authored the 1980 Baye-Dole Act, which gives the government the power to seize a patent in the name of public health or safety and issue a license. Baye says the CellPro case perfectly illustrates the law's intent...