Word: lymphosarcoma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Last week, in the simple certainty that his own case of lymphosarcoma (a cancerous disease of the lymphatic tissues) is incurable, he left Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, to fly home to Brazil with his pretty wife Marcina. "A man ought to die at home," he told reporters on his way to La Guardia Field. "We have a fine new house at Joao Pessoa. We've been making payments on it for three years...