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...dignity that may have been missing at this moment was evident in the last months of Champion's life. He had been suffering from a rare malignancy of the blood, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, for some time. Dr. Lilian Reich of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said that Champion first showed signs of the disease ten years ago, but that it was not diagnosed until four years later. Throughout the long rehearsal and preview period Champion scheduled his treatments so they would not conflict with his work. Says Dr. Reich: "It was clear...
DIED. Gower Champion, 59, leading Broadway musical director and choreographer; of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, a rare malignancy of the blood; in New York City (see THEATER...
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