Word: lymphomas
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...after finding gallstones both there and in the bile duct; the blockage had caused the Shah to turn yellow from jaundice. The surgeons also took lymph nodes from his neck and a slice from his liver, and afterward made a more serious announcement: the Shah was suffering from histiocytic lymphoma, a form of cancer of the lymphatic system. The disease also involved his spleen, but, said the hospital's physician in chief, Dr. Hibbard Williams, ''some potential for cure exists.'' He added that the Shah would remain at the hospital for six weeks and might...
...love but also demanded respect-and the operative word was "demanded." Golda was of that generation of pioneers who built the Jewish state; she served as its Prime Minister through five years and one war. When she died last week at the age of 80, from the complications of lymphoma, an illness she had kept secret for twelve years, she still ranked high on any list of the world's most admired women. The dumpy, doughty lady with her drab dresses, hair strewn with gray, and ever present cigarette was a figure of legend, and yet historians were divided...
DIED. Golda Meir, 80, Premier of Israel from 1969 to 1974; from complications of lymphoma; in Jerusalem (see WORLD...
...could effectively run the government of a major nation. But through her long and distinguished career, Meir proved the world wrong. When she died last week at the age of 80, still another courageous facet of her personality came to light: she had been receiving secret radiation therapy for lymphoma for the last 13 years...
Hans Steinke conducted their experiments with cotton-topped marmosets, South American monkeys that are known to develop lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, when they are exposed to two viruses of the herpes family. The researchers reported in the British journal Nature that they inoculated 42 of the animals with a vaccine made from killed herpes saimiri viruses, then exposed some of the immunized animals and controls to live, cell-free viruses. Most of the non-immunized monkeys developed malignant lymphoma and died of the disease. The immunized animals remained healthy...