Word: lymphomas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Saturday, Oct. 20,1 went to Camp David. There I received a "supersensitive" memorandum from Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He reported, "We have now learned the Shah's illness is malignant lymphoma compounded by a possible internal blockage that has resulted in severe jaundice. The lymphoma responded satisfactorily when chemotherapy was started several months ago, but recently the chemotherapy has been less effective. The Shah has not had tests necessary to establish proper diagnosis and further chemotherapeutic approaches. Dr. Benjamin Kean of the Cornell Medical School, who last saw the Shah yesterday, has advised us that these...
...others whose immune systems have been suppressed by drugs. It also causes a wide range of birth defects and is the most common cause of infectious retardation in infants. Epstein-Barr virus is the herpes associated with mononucleosis. More tragically, it is believed to contribute to Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer that mainly strikes Africans...
...Stanford Oncology Day Care Clinic in Palo Alto, a computer program called ONCOCIN watches over 30 patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It studies their test results, then proposes a complex treatment program called a protocol, which includes lab tests, X-ray studies and subtle changes in chemotherapy. Says ONCOCIN's chief programmer, Carli Scott: "We're not taking decisions away from the doctors, but helping with their calculations...