Word: myeloma
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Hobson has shrunk five inches since doctors 18 months ago diagnosed his disease as multiple myeloma. Although hunched and incessantly hammered by pain, he is dictating a book on the black man's problems in America to his secretary at his town house in Southwest Washington. His words may be strident, but his views are not hysterically militant. "I call racism a rationalization for economic exploitation," he told Hathaway. "It's now become a part of our nervous system, a part of our institutions. But I think it goes further than the fact that...
Died. Edgar A.J. Johnson, 72, co-founder and former president of the Economic History Association who, as chief of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration mission to South Korea, directed relief and reconstruction programs in that country during the Korean War; of multiple myeloma; in Washington...
Beads of Acid. Because these molecules occur in such enormous variety in the body, scientists can rarely get a large quantity of any single antibody from normal individuals. But one form of cancer of the antibody-forming cells, multiple myeloma, causes proliferation of cells that then mass produce a pure gamma globulin that is unique to each patient. From a cooperative myeloma victim, the Rockefeller researchers obtained samples of blood and processed it to extract the globulin antibody. The remaining blood was returned to the donor. In H years, they got what by molecular standards is a huge amount...
...laymen his disease was "cancer." To specialists, this means carcinoma, which is only one type of malignant tumor. Others: sarcoma, lymphosarcoma, myeloma...
...author of a report on a case of solitary myeloma of the femur treated in the Los Angeles County General Hospital, was a member of its pathology department. Dr. Warren Gamaliel Harding II, 28 (nephew...