Word: lymph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scout meeting in Dedham, Mass., one day last spring feeling sick. He had vomited, and by next morning was lethargic and complaining that his neck hurt. Jeffrey seemed to be coming down with a sore throat, but soon his temperature reached 106° F (41° C). A lymph gland in his neck swelled to golf-ball size, his lips and tongue turned strawberry, and scarlet blotches appeared on his chest and back. Jeffrey's illness: a perplexing and long unrecognized childhood malady called Kawasaki disease...
...convinced that he was seeing a new illness, one that mostly struck children under five, and could only be diagnosed by a combination of distinct symptoms. Among them: high fever persisting for five or more days, congested blood vessels in the eye, skin rashes, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, peeling of the skin from fingers and toes...
...University of Iowa have found that the state's farmers run much higher risks than urban dwellers of developing and dying from six types of cancer. Analyzing the death certificates of more than 20,000 white male lowans, Dr. Leon Burmeister and his colleagues found that prostate, stomach, lymph gland and lip cancer, as well as leukemia and multiple myeloma (a form of bone marrow cancer), occurred up to three times more frequently among farmers...
...body), seven cases showed noticeable improvement, five of them enough to be classified as partial remissions. Tumors shrank substantially in three of eleven patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. Though it is too early in the treatment of patients with lymphoma (a cancer of the lymph system) or melanoma (skin cancer) to assess the effect of the drug, the attending doctors see encouraging signs. Discussing the early results, Frank Rauscher, head of research at the A.C.S., was emphatic. Said he: "The answer is yes. There is definitely activity against cancer. Abundantly, clearly...
...Instead of a "periodic" (usually interpreted to mean once a year) general checkup for cancer, including physical examination of the breasts and pelvis, testicles and prostate, thyroid, lymph nodes, mouth and skin, the A.C.S. now suggests one every three years between ages 20 and 40, and annually thereafter...