Word: leukemias
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After Spiro Agnew died last week of acute leukemia at the age of 77, his onetime campaign press secretary Victor Gold said, "We speak of the Ronald Reagan revolution...Spiro Agnew was the John the Baptist for that revolution...
...system would follow suit. The trouble was, the only way to achieve that was to kill off the body's entire current bone-marrow supply and replace it with another--a technique oncologists use as a last-ditch weapon to try to cleanse patients of such systemic cancers as leukemia and breast cancer...
DIED. RAY FULLER, 60, co-developer of the antidepressant drug Prozac; of leukemia; in Greenwood, Indiana...
...sounds like the sort of remedy a witch doctor might dream up: take blood from the discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...
...procedure appears to solve a medical Catch-22. Although the transplantation of bone-marrow cells can restore the immune system of a child suffering from leukemia, hundreds of children in the U.S. die each year for lack of a suitable donor--this despite the fact that more than 2 million Americans have volunteered. The problem is that bone-marrow transplants require a far more precise match of tissue types--measured by six different genetic identity markers--than, say, heart or kidney transplants...