Word: polycythemia
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DIED. Susan Butcher, 51, champion musher who won the Iditarod dogsled race four times, the first in 1986; of complications from a bone-marrow transplant to treat polycythemia vera, a rare blood disease; in Seattle, Wash. Of the grueling, 1,152-mile slog through the Alaskan wilderness Butcher once said, "I do not know the word quit. Either I never did, or I have abolished...
According to the Boston Globe, McCurdy had been battling a blood condition, polycythemia vera...
Tulane University's Dr. George E. Burch and Dr. Nicholas P. DePasquale got the idea of bleeding their patients from the fact that victims of polycythemia (an excess of red cells in the blood) are especially prone to the pains of repeated angina attacks, and eventually to fatal shutdowns in the heart's arteries (coronary occlusions). Could it be that an excess of red cells makes the blood more viscous and more likely to clot? They thought it might...
...Armed with radioactive phosphorus supplied by the AEC, two top U.S. specialists flew to Yugoslavia to treat Cardinal Stepinac for polycythemia (an excess of red blood cells, sometimes called "reverse leukemia"): the University of California's Radiation Expert John H. Lawrence (TIME, April 7, 1952) and Chicago Surgeon John F. Ruzic...
...radiophosphorus is good for these leukemias, in which the white cells become predominant, it is even better for polycythemia vera, in which the red cells get too numerous. This is because the radioactive atoms act on the bone marrow, where both types of blood cells are made. If either red or white cells are increasing too fast, the radioactivity cuts down their birth rate. For simple polycythemia (uncomplicated by disease of the heart or lungs), radioactive phosphorus is the best medication known today. Some patients are still getting along well 15 years after beginning this treatment, and their number...