Word: retinoblastoma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if it is detected early, cancer of the eye (retinoblastoma) imposes a harsh and agonizing choice: loss of one and often both eyes, or certain death as the disease spreads along the nerves to the brain. Last week the parents of two little victims of the disease faced up to that choice...
With the approval of both his parents, Johnny Pair of Atlanta had his left eye removed two years ago to check the spread of cancer (retinoblastoma) along nerve pathways to the brain. Now Johnny, 5, has suffered a recurrence of the disease. His right eye is gradually losing its sight, and doctors say that unless it is soon removed he will certainly die. If he is operated on, they give him an even chance of survival. His mother, Mrs. Bessie Pair, 32, favors the operation. But she is now divorced from Arnold Pair, 36, and surgeons refuse to operate without...
...that many types of cancer can be passed on by heredity. On the basis of a six-year study of several hundred Utah families, the geneticists concluded that only three extremely rare kinds can be transmitted as inherited characteristics. They are multiple polyposis (which may develop into intestinal cancer), retinoblastoma (cancer of the eye), xeroderma pigmentosum (which may become skin cancer...
...eyesight got steadily worse. Last week the Purcells brought the little girl to Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, to seek hope from a team of four specialists. After sending Carolyn Joan to play in the hospital corridor, the specialists confirmed the original diagnosis. The little girl had retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eyes. The doctors urged the parents to let them remove both eyes immediately...