Word: lymphosarcoma
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...speaker is Sandy, a pretty, warm-eyed young widow who had been pregnant with her second child when doctors had diagnosed her husband's lymphosarcoma. At first she hesitated to tell Mark, then 29, that he had but five months to live. But there was a tradition of honesty in their marriage, and she realized she needed to draw strength from him. "The truth set us free," she says. "When I told him, he cried ... But a huge weight lifted because we could share it." Sneaking her new baby into the hospital under a poncho, Sandy nursed...
...children whose bone marrow stopped making abnormal white cells, at least for a while. An eighth patient, who had acute myelocytic leukemia, also enjoyed a temporary improvement, though three others with this type of disease had none. One patient with a third form of leukemia (monocytic) and two with lymphosarcoma got no benefit from the enzyme...
...sent the patient to the laboratory." For some cancers there is no doubt that "radical" (meaning drastic and extensive) surgery has pro longed useful life. (The University of Minnesota's famed Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei's most productive years have followed removal of a lymphosarcoma and much related tissue...
...test was positive in 90% of cases with "invasive" cancer (one that has begun to grow into surrounding tissues), even when no symptoms of disease were evident. It detected not only typical cancer (carcinoma) but also leukemia and lymphosarcoma...
...laymen his disease was "cancer." To specialists, this means carcinoma, which is only one type of malignant tumor. Others: sarcoma, lymphosarcoma, myeloma...