Word: lymphoma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lake Victoria would seem like an odd site for an international cancer conference. And the acute leukemia that now ranks as a major killer of U.S. children aged one to 14 is so rare in Africa that it would seem to have little in common with Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer of the jaw that is prevalent among children in tropical Africa. Yet last week top researchers from eleven countries journeyed to Kampala, the capital of Uganda, to pool their knowledge of both diseases. Some temperate-zone doctors suspect that both cancers may be caused by viruses, and they...
...Coincidence. It was the distribution of Burkitt's lymphoma that first implicated a virus as its possible cause. Named for British-born Surgeon Denis P. Burkitt, 53, who first described its prevalence and unusual distribution, it attacks children regardless of race, in high-rainfall, equatorial areas of low altitude. The geography of the disease is strikingly similar to that of yellow fever. And yellow fever has long been recognized as a viral infection carried by a mosquito...
...Thomas M. Bell reported from a research center at Entebbe that he has isolated reovirus 3* from seven victims of Burkitt's tumor. This finding alone might well have been pure coincidence, but there was additional evidence: antibody against reovirus 3 has been found in 73% of lymphoma patients, and in only 12% of comparison subjects from the same districts. From Australia came further word: mosquitoes carrying the same type of virus have been found there...
...between Burkitt's tumor and leukemia." But he was careful to note the difference in the effects of treatment. "The results here are really fantastic," he said. "There is nothing like this anywhere in the world. Long survivals, including apparent cure, after drug treatment for Burkitt's lymphoma are running up to 20%, much higher than for our leukemias. I have the highest hopes that we can take home some useful hints for treating leukemia and other tumors...