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DIED. Edward Franklin, 53, medical researcher whose pioneering studies into the synthesis and metabolism of proteins in the body increased the understanding of the aging process; of septicemia; in New York City. An authority on immunology, Franklin also did outstanding work on lymph-system cancer and rheumatoid arthritis...
Kaposi's sarcoma is a rare cancer that appears as violet patches on the skin and infiltrates the digestive and lymph systems. In the past, its victims have been mainly children in equatorial Africa and elderly people of Jewish or Mediterranean extraction. But now the disease is taking an alarming toll on another distinct group, American homosexual males. In the past six months, the disease that usually afflicts fewer than two people out of 3 million Americans has stricken 95 individuals, more than 90% of them homosexual men, most of whom are in their 30s. The death rate...
...eleven San Francisco-area rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with a new program of radiation therapy that has produced promising results in relieving both pain and stiffness from this sometimes crippling disease. Radiation therapy is one of the standard treatments for Hodgkin's disease and other cancers of the lymph nodes; in the past 25 years, it has helped raise the cure rate for Hodgkin's disease from 30% to 80%. While refining their techniques, Hodgkin's researchers noticed that irradiation also seemed to relieve arthritis in laboratory animals. Stanford University's Dr. Henry S. Kaplan...
Using a high-energy X-ray beam, researchers at Stanford administered a total of 2,000 rads of radiation (less than half the dosage for Hodgkin's disease) to the lymph nodes of the neck, chest, abdomen, thymus gland and spleen. Patients were treated five days a week for five weeks. Within a month, all the patients started to improve; six months after the irradiation, disagreeable symptoms such as morning stiffness, pain and swelling within the joints were all significantly reduced...
Radiation, which has been used for 20 years to treat cancer of the lymph nodes, only kills the T lymphosite cells. Because patients benefitted from the radiation therapy, the doctors concluded that T lymphosite cells provoke inflamation in rheumatoid arthritis, Trentham said...