Word: leukemias
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...interesting to note that it appears that Harvard has finally become the HAVEN OF REFUGE for discarded politicians" Other such thinkers have sent a number of theories for Harvard consumption, for instance. The Gold Arthritis Theory, the astrology proof theory. On Education of Minors, and the Jewish leukemia theory (offered by a self-proclaimed "Atomic...
...America's cosmetics queen (Mary Tyler Moore). The mother makes him an offer. If he gives her twelve-year-old, who has developed a crush on him, a meaningful role in his campaign, she will make a big contribution. He is soon persuaded: the girl is dying of leukemia and has only a few-guess how many-weeks to live...
Brezhnev had been plagued by illness since 1974. He suffered from heart disease. The list of maladies he was suspected of having included leukemia, cancer of the jaw, gout, emphysema and circulatory ailments. Several times during the past eight years, rumors of his death had swept through Western capitals after a faltering appearance or an unexpected absence from a meeting demanded by protocol. But in recent months he kept to a rigorous schedule of events. He even braved freezing temperatures for two hours early last week to review a Red Square parade. Thus the official announcement of his death three...
...until 1980 did anyone identify a virus that causes cancer in human cells: Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., isolated a virus that can transform normal human white blood cells into the malignant type found in a rare cancer called T-cell leukemia. The same virus was found last year to be responsible for a relatively high rate of both T-cell leukemia and a form of lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system) in Japan. Says Gallo: "There is strong evidence that this virus will be important for a number of human cancers...
...decades that certain forms of cancer are associated with certain visible changes in the 23 pairs of chromosomes found in human cells. Recent studies suggest, for example, that in some lung cancers a piece is often missing from chromosome No. 3. Better-documented changes occur in certain leukemias and lymphomas. In one form of chronic leukemia, a piece of chromosome 22 changes place with a piece of chromosome 9. In most patients with a cancer known as Burkitt's lymphoma, a piece of chromosome 8 has changed places with a piece...