Word: lymphomas
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...Democrats, the choice was more complicated, and the results in a way more interesting. Former California Governor Jerry Brown, usually enveloped in an aura of indignation, did not profit from the prevailing anger. A different contrarian principle worked in favor of Paul Tsongas. The former Massachusetts Senator, survivor of lymphoma, preacher of no-nonsense, progrowth, probusiness ("You can't have employment and despise employers -- no goose, no golden eggs"), came away with 33% of the vote. His importance was symbolic as well as substantive: Tsongas possesses a power of glamourlessness, a nerdy, basset-hound anti-image that gives hope...
Paul Tsongas had put on an amazing sprint to take the lead in New Hampshire polls. But he still seemed a regional New England candidate, and the more he is taken seriously, the harder questions about his health and stamina (he has recovered from lymphoma) will become. Bob Kerrey and Tom Harkin by all ; appearances had failed to strike any sparks among the voters, and Jerry Brown still looked to be in a private orbit somewhere...
Tsongas waves off such pessimism. He beat the lymphoma that drove him from the Senate in 1984. When he became the first announced Democrat in April 1991, skeptics predicted he would be an ex-candidate by last Labor Day. Now, says his aide Peg Connolly, "Paul is suffering a serious case of self- confidence." How confident? For months, he says in utter seriousness, he has been making a list of possible running mates and Cabinet appointees...
Could cancer be an infectious disease? In some cases the answer is at least partly yes. Viruses are thought to play a role in liver and uterine cancer and some forms of lymphoma. Now comes the news that bacteria may actually be a major culprit in the world's second most common malignancy: stomach cancer, which afflicts an estimated 700,000 a year worldwide...
That marked the second victory this year: in February the VA awarded similar payments to vets with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and soft-tissue sarcoma, two forms of cancer. But the government continues to reject claims that Agent Orange causes lung cancer, and veterans argue that the VA imposes so many restrictions that few survivors will actually benefit...