Word: leukemias
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Dramatic progress was reported last week in efforts to cure victims of massive overdoses of radiation, and to turn this new-won skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...
...team of four researchers from the Harvard Medical School recently made a major contribution to medical knowledge of the treatment of leukemia and other malignant diseases. The research, conducted in both humans and animals, promises to eliminate one of the major deterrents to massive radiation treatment-destruction of the body's bone marrow...
During periods when the leukemia is controlled by drugs, the diseased cells disappear from the bone marrow, and the marrow takes on a normal appearance. The researchers proposed to remove and freeze a part of the normal appearing marrow, storing it until leukemia cells again appeared and could not be controlled by drugs...
...Manie Sacks, a man scarcely known outside the trade, to have attracted so much high-powered devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny) was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
...ride out to the airport with him. Rather than hurt her feelings, Manie wearily went to La Guardia, boarded a plane and flew to Detroit. A little more than a year ago, goes another story, Comedian Danny Thomas went to him for help with a project to benefit leukemia victims; Manie plunged into the project without letting anyone know that he was dying of the disease himself. This week's TV show, which raised more than $200,000 for leukemia research and other work by the Emanuel Sacks medical foundation, was predictably sentimental, sincere and enthusiastic. Said Singer Tony...