Word: treatment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last Tuesday, 15 faculty members--including Dean Ford, Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting, and Nobel Prize-winner Edward Purcell--got the Johnson treatment. Critics in varying degrees of the Administration's war, they were invited to a private briefing by the President after sending the White House a letter of concern several weeks earlier. It is quite evident that they were honored with two hours of Mr. Johnson's time only because they were thought to represent the anxiety prevalent in the Harvard community...
...cells can multiply and cause relapses, the obvious objective is a twelve-log kill-the elimination of every last leukemic cell. And the ultracautious Dr. Zubrod made what is, for him, a wildly optimistic statement: "I believe that in about 25% of patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia now starting treatment, the cell kill is approaching twelve logs...
Long Survivals. Despite remaining difficulties, the outlook for victims of acute lymphocytic leukemia continues to improve. Since 1964, the proportion of patients who gain complete if temporary remissions as a result of intensive treatment has gone up from 50% to 90%, said Dr. Zubrod, and the median survival time has stretched from 19 months to three years or more. A few patients have done still better, reported Sloan-Kettering's Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal. He knows of 87 children and 16 adults who are alive five years after first diagnosis, with no detectable disease. Indeed, 29 of them have...
Admittedly, said Dr. Burchenal, these cases represent only a fraction of 1% of the world's leukemia toll (the U.S. annually records about 18,000 new leukemia cases-about 3,000 children), and virtually all got intensive treatment in one of the few medical centers specializing in leukemia. But this does not mean that such care is limited to children living close to those centers. Dr. Zubrod urged his physician listeners to refer patients with suspected leukemia to the centers where, if the diagnosis is confirmed, they can be treated by a team of experts until the leukemic cell...
Some of today's best journalists do not appear in daily papers or on TV or in magazines. Major issues are often so complex that the only way to deal with them is in book form, and book publishers have been concentrating more and more on lengthy treatment of topical matters. Privacy and Freedom, a thoughtful assessment by Alan F. Westin of the growing threat to the traditional American right to be left alone, is a case in point...