Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it is surprising they do not cause more undesired side effects." One of the commonest is Parkinsonism, with rigidity, tremor, pill-rolling motion of the hands, disturbances of all movements, and drooling. Symptoms may persist two or three months after medication is stopped. Thorazine can also cause severe liver damage-sometimes fatal...
...diuretic acetazolamide (trade name: Diamox), often given to heart patients to help flush the brine out of their systems, can so upset a congested liver as to cause hepatic coma-especially when it is given in combination with ammonium chloride...
Died. Carl Brisson, 64, bouncy, curly-locked actor-singer, who artfully used his high-styled cocktail-party personality in a profitable four-decade career as a Scandinavian Maurice Chevalier; father-in-law of Actress Rosalind Russell; of cancer of the liver; in Copenhagen...
Fowles did have one complaint: discomfort from a plastic tube leading out from his liver through an opening in the abdominal wall. His surgeon had installed it as a substitute bile duct during the operation, believing that continued cancer growth would require it. Fowles angrily agitated for its removal. Some 18 months after his first operation, the doctors agreed to "correct" the tube with surgery-and found all signs of cancer gone. "There wasn't a trace," they say. "We looked everywhere." Fifteen months later, there is still no evidence of cancer...
...been only 120 proven cases of such spontaneous regression. Leading regressive cancers: neuroblastoma, a malignancy of the sympathetic nervous system that turns up chiefly in young children, and chorionepithelioma, a very rare malignancy of the placenta in pregnant women. Regression has been recorded only once in carcinoma of the liver, once in carcinoma of the pancreas...