Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a winning smile, Chad began chemotherapy at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in his home town of Omaha when he was 21 months old. Doctors there claimed that he was improving rapidly under their care and that the leukemia was in remission. But when they suggested radiation treatment for further protection, Green, who is a welder, and his wife moved to Massachusetts and placed Chad with Dr. John Truman, a noted specialist in pediatric hematology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Truman continued the chemotherapy...
...Chad's blood early in 1978, Mrs. Green reluctantly admitted that she had not been giving Chad his pills. "Chemotherapy doesn't cure," said Diana Green in desperation. Instead, the parents had been giving the boy Laetrile, a drug which is illegal for use in cancer treatment in Massachusetts, and which repeated medical studies have found useless for that purpose...
...Laetrile was incompatible with regular chemotherapy and had, in fact, caused signs of cyanide poisoning in Chad's body. After considering a possible kidnaping charge against the Greens, Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti instead sought a court order demanding that the Greens return Chad to Massachusetts for treatment. Judge Guy Volterra granted the order. Last week he held the parents in contempt of court for disobeying it, but gave them another week to comply before assessing any penalty...
...bone growth. But it was not until 1970 that Dr. Carl Brighton and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine actually showed that a small direct current could help mend patients' stubborn fractures. Today several dozen hospitals in the U.S. and abroad are using electrical treatment on orthopedic patients for whom other therapies have failed. Says Dr. C. Andrew Bassett, chief of Columbia-Presbyterian's orthopedic research labs: "No question about it. In these cases, electricity can significantly speed up the healing process...
...resorting to a bit of electromagnetic prestidigitation. He attaches a set of electrical coils, like those in a small motor, on the outside of the cast directly around the region of the break. In that way he is able to induce an electrical current within the bone. The treatment requires only a 10-volt portable powerpack, can be operated by the patient at home, and is continued for about the same two to four months as Brighton's method...