Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Examples among children: leukemia, rheumatic fever...
...Miss Farmer interviewed researchers, nurses, hospital attendants, superintendents, and others. Leonard found that Memorial's highly effective working laboratory was unspectacular and full of quiet purpose. What he couldn't help remembering, however, were the jolly children in Room 102 L, undergoing treatment for the dread disease, leukemia. When he sat down at his typewriter to try to tell his story clearly and accurately, without oversimplifying or sensationalizing it, the children in 102 L "automatically" became the lead...
...doctor, and a plump little girl cradles her doll. In a corner, a nurse in a starched white uniform peers through a microscope and makes a click-click sound with a small, sharp-voiced machine. She is counting in some child's blood the deadly white cells of leukemia: cancer of the blood. All the children in 1O2L of a Friday morning have leukemia, for which no cure is known. All of them, as medicine's knowledge stands at present, will die of the disease...
...theory behind the exchange: there may be some factor in normal blood that combats leukemia; it might work on the bone marrow, source of the abnormal, immature cells, or it might work on the cells themselves. The doctors hoped to increase this suspected factor X in the convict's bloodstream by giving it extra work to do in fighting the child's leukemia. It was the first such experiment on human beings, although transfusions of normal blood are standard practice for leukemia victims as a life-prolonging measure. One difficulty had been getting a donor willing to exchange...
...breastbone) showed nothing abnormal. Doctors believed that he would stay free of the disease, but tests would continue for a year. The girl seemed a little better, but it was much too early to tell whether the Sing Sing experiment was a new milestone in the fight against leukemia or just another baffling failure...