Word: leukemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vitamins may play an accessory role in the treatment of cancer. Patients with cancer of the stomach are unable to distribute vitamin A through the blood stream the way normal persons do. The cancer cells seem to devour the vitamin. Patients with leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, have a much higher amount of vitamin B1 in these cells than do normal persons. Conclusion: there may be a way to starve cancer cells by depriving them of the vitamins they especially need. Dr. Rhoads hinted at the startling discovery of a chemical which in the test tube strangles...
...Phosphorous, which settles in the bone marrow and spleen, is used for the cancer-like blood disease, leukemia...
Death had a joke in store for the celebrant of girlhood, roses and death. Gathering roses one day for a lovely virgin from Egypt (dry source of all cults of death), he scratched his hand. Shortly afterwards it became clear that Rilke had leukemia, a hideously painful disease of the white corpuscles. This century's great minstrel of death, who dreaded the very word, met it in complete integrity, refusing anesthetic, floated upon the sumptuous hospitality of friends whom he refused to see. "Except for the presence of the doctor and the nurse he died, as he had lived...
...have found that phosphorus turnover (metabolism) is slowest in the brain, somewhat faster in muscles and other organs, fastest in bones (which use 75% of the body's phosphorus). Since 1938 doctors have been using radio-phosphorus instead of radium or X-ray exposure in the treatment of leukemia, a mysterious cancerlike disease of the blood and blood-forming tissue such as bone marrow. This is the first therapeutic application resulting from tracer studies with radioelements...
...kindly old doctor who plays solitaire, the desiccated matron in black who hatches plots, the wife of the sanatorium's chief who likes to have her virtue sullied by the hero of the piece. Reasonably well acted, Jupiter Laughs could be diagnosed as a sad case of dramatic leukemia...