Word: lymphomas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. DENISE LEVERTOV, 74, activist-poet who meditated on the politics of the household and state, writing such fierce antiwar collections as To Stay Alive; of lymphoma; in Seattle...
Rick Murdock says he did not mean to put pressure on his employees, but his life hung in the balance. At 49, the deceptively tanned and fit executive had just received the kind of diagnosis that is a hypochondriac's nightmare: a rare case of advanced mantle-cell lymphoma. Doctors told him the average life expectancy for the disease was 30 months, and indeed, his initial round of conventional chemotherapy was unsuccessful. But in a coincidence that was both ironic and edifying, CellPro scientists were experimenting with a new way to boost the success rate of the very operation recommended...
DIED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate; of pneumonia contracted after liver surgery on Jan. 10; in Boston. In 1983 Tsongas was found to have lymphoma, but it was successfully treated, and at his death there was no sign that it had returned. However, bone-marrow transplants he received contributed to liver problems, requiring the operation. A Democrat, Tsongas served two terms in the House, and was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1978, but he decided to serve only one term because of his illness. With the cancer under control, he ran for President...
HOSPITALIZED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former U.S. Senator; in serious but stable condition for treatment of liver dysfunction and an irregular heartbeat; in Boston. There was no evidence that Tsongas' lymphoma, diagnosed in 1983, had recurred...
DIED. HOWARD ROLLINS, 46, actor who starred for five seasons in the TV series In the Heat of the Night; of complications from lymphoma; in New York City. Rollins was written out of the series after the 1992-93 season following repeated problems with substance abuse. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the 1981 film Ragtime...