Word: leukemia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scott Hamilton, who was a Jimmy Fund patient when he was two years old, will also perform this weekend. Hamilton was expected to die of a form of leukemia by the age of six. Now, at eighteen, he has already competed in the Men's Senior Championship...
...advice is especially needed today, Landers said, because America is suffering through a period of "moral leukemia," in which "it takes nerves of steel even to be a neurotic...
Died. William Redfield, 49, veteran TV, stage and screen actor whose estimated 2,000 performances included playing Harding in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia; in Manhattan. The son of a music arranger and a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl, Redfield played ten roles on Broadway before he was 20. He later wrote about the theater -Letters From an Actor (1967)-and with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan helped found the Actors Studio...
Died. Thomas Austin Yawkey, 73, benevolently paternalistic owner of the Boston Red Sox; of leukemia; in Boston. Yawkey, heir to a timber and mining fortune, bought the moribund Sox in 1933 and over the years spent lavishly to acquire such top players as Joe Cronin, Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and most recently Oakland's Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers (the sale of their contracts was nullified by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn). So generously treated that they were nicknamed the Gold Sox, the team never won a World Series for Yawkey but did take three American League pennants...
LeVeen and his colleagues are understandably excited by their technique. In conjunction with other treatments like immunotherapy (TIME cover, March 19, 1973), it could provide a promising new weapon against substantial-sized tumors; it would not be effective against leukemia and other cancers involving widely dispersed malignancies. LeVeen also agrees with the authors of an accompanying editorial in JAMA, Drs. Joan M. Bull and Paul B. Chretien of the National Cancer Institute, who urge additional tests on patients-with special attention directed toward any adverse side effects-before wide-scale application of heat therapy in cancer treatment. Such trials...