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8 unusual facts about Leukemia


Bailey Stenson

As a child, she suffered from Leukemia, but has fought through it and was able to play softball and compete at such a high level.

Etienne Beaudry

Unfortunately he was able to play only 37 more games as he was diagnosed with Leukemia mid-way through the 1998–99 season.

Gary DeBacker

On September 19, 1982 in Waterford, Michigan during an 1982 ABA Leukemia "Race for Life" event that was memorial race dedicated to the memory of Todd Kingsbury (The Todd Kingsbury Memorial Race), a boy who had died of leukemia in 1981, Seven year old Gary DeBacker gave his 1981 Michigan District #1 No.1 trophy he won to Bob Kingbury, the deceased boy's father because if Todd did not stop racing due to his illness, he would have been Michigan District #1 champion and not him.

Jeff Purvis

In the fall Atlanta race, Purvis drove for Rick Hendrick and the #58 Leukemia Society Chevy at Atlanta, finishing 26th, his best finish of the year.

Jenna Boyd

In 2005 Boyd played the Leukemia-suffering Bailey Graffman in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Malé B. Alexander

He is also the founder of K.O.O.L (Kids Outreach on Leukemia.

Mark Knight

He created Leuk the Duck, short for Leukemia, a mascot for Challenge, a cancer foundation to provide a visual impetus for kids with cancer.

Miguel Angel Delgado

After losing his mask, Delgado struggled to stay in a prominent position, he eventually left the scene after learning he had Leukemia.


Albert Jay Nock

Nock died of leukemia in 1945, at the Wakefield, Rhode Island home of his longtime friend, Ruth Robinson, the illustrator of his 1934 book, "A Journey into Rabelais' France".

Atypical chronic myeloid leukemia

In 2012 SETBP1 was identified as a novel oncogene in aCML; specific somatic mutations of this gene were discovered in patients affected by atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (aCML) and related diseases.

Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor

These agents have been used in acute promyelocytic leukemia and have been found to affect the HDAC-mediated transcriptional repression.

Belchertown State School

In 1975, Belchertown was sued once again for denying its patients the right to vote (this was one of the first disability-related voting rights cases in the United States), and in 1977 a case was brought against the school on behalf of a 67-year-old severely retarded man with leukemia to determine if a court-appointed guardian ad litem could refuse treatment on his behalf.

Bibby Line

In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.

Catherine Galbraith

Catherine Galbraith (née Catherine Merriam Atwater; January 19, 1913 – October 1, 2008) was an American author who was the wife of economist and author John Kenneth Galbraith, and the mother of four sons: diplomat and political analyst, Peter W. Galbraith, economist James K. Galbraith, attorney J. Alan Galbraith, and Douglas Galbraith who died in childhood of leukemia.

Cleveland Marathon

Among the charities supported by the marathon are The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Commissar Shakespeare

Su who has been cast in the role of Snow White ("Pamuk Prenses") in the school play, is rehearsing when she blacks out and is taken to hospital where she is found to have leukemia.

Cross-presentation

Cross-presentation has been shown to play a role in the immune defense against many viruses (herpesvirus, influenzavirus, CMV, EBV, SIV, papillomavirus, and others), bacteria (listeria, salmonella, E. coli, M. tuberculosis, and others) and tumors (brain, pancreas, melanoma, leukemia, and others).

Feline leukemia virus

Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) is an RNA virus in the subfamily Oncovirinae belong to family Retroviridae was first described by W. Jarrett (et al., Nature 202:566) at University of Glasgow, School Veterinary Medicine, in 1964.

Friends with Benefit

Some artists that recorded songs featured on this album (and show) are Gavin DeGraw, Fall Out Boy, and Audioslave, as well as leukemia survivor Andrew McMahon and his band, Jack's Mannequin.

Georges Mathé

Dr. Brian Bolwell, chief of hematology at the Cleveland Clinic noted that Dr. Mathé had proved an important principle: "You can cure an incurable leukemia patient.", and had developed both a technique and an important term, "adoptive immunotherapy," to describe how a person’s own immune system can be used to combat cancer and other diseases.

Ihor R. Lemischka

His awards include a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral, a Leukemia Social Special Fellowship, an American Cyanamid Preceptorship Award and the DuPont Young Faculty Grant.

Ike Sewell

Just 20 days away from his 87th birthday, Sewell died in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago on August 20, 1990 after suffering from a lengthy bout with leukemia for several years.

İlknur Melis Durası

She ran Nike's Women Marathon as Turkish Peace Ambassador on behalf of children suffering from leukemia in 2011, at San Francisco.

Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders

The Colts cheerleading squad achieved greater fame when several of them shaved their heads bald in 2012 in tribute to coach Chuck Pagano and his successful battle with leukemia.

Kichitaro Negishi

Despite his success in the late 1980s, Negishi worked only sparingly for the next 15 years: a 1992 film based on the manga series Kachō Kōsaku Shima, the short feature Chibusa about a man (Kaoru Kobayashi) caring for his leukemia-stricken wife, and Kizuna (1998), a thriller about a former yakuza with Kōji Yakusho and Ken Watanabe.

Leo Kinlen

His hypothesis, explaining the higher rate of leukemia in the areas around the British Sellafield nuclear complex, than in other parts of the country, is that the mixing of the population, which occurred when people started moving into the area to work at the facility, resulted in the spreading of a virus that could cause leukemia.

Lizzie Spaulding

For Lizzie's battle with leukemia in 2000, the show received a Special Recognition Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for bringing national awareness of the disease to the attention of daytime viewers.

For Lizzie's battle with leukemia in 2000, the soap received a Special Recognition Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for bringing national awareness of the disease to the attention of daytime viewers.

Locks of Love

All American football player (and Chicago Bears first-round draft pick) Gabe Carimi's maternal uncle suffered from leukemia as a child, underwent chemotherapy while he was in second grade, and lost his hair in the process.

Lois Darling

Darling died at age seventy-two on December 19, 1989 of leukemia at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut.

Mark Holtz

In 1995, Holtz would return to TV broadcasting, where he remained until May 22, 1997, when he had to give up his duties to battle leukemia, which would claim his life on September 7 of that year.

Michael Capponi

In November 2002, he co-chaired a fundraiser with actor Matt Damon for Damon's long time friend Lisa Maniscalco for Leukemia cancer research.

Murine leukemia virus

The murine leukemia viruses (MLVs or MuLVs) are retroviruses named for their ability to cause cancer in murine (mouse) hosts.

Paul Hartzell

The Danny Thompson Memorial Tournament, benefiting leukemia and cancer research

Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon

In 1982, Penn State Heisman Trophy winner John Cappelletti spoke to the dancers about losing his brother, Joey, to leukemia ten years earlier, and the event that year raised more than $95,000, and the following year, the sum of $131,000 was raised.

Ponatinib

At the 2010 annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, ARIAD announced from a Phase I study of ponatinib in patients with resistant and refractory chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and Philadelphia-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL).

Ralph Royce

He died of leukemia on 7 August 1965 at the Homestead Air Force Base Hospital in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Robert Louis-Dreyfus Trophy

The Robert Louis-Dreyfus Trophy (French: Trophée Robert Louis-Dreyfus) is an annual summer tournament hosted by Olympique de Marseille since 2010, dedicated to Robert Louis-Dreyfus, a majority shareholder of the French football team, who died on July 4, 2009, following a long battle with leukemia.

Robert Peter Gale

From 1973-1993, Gale was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology where he focused on the molecular biology, immunology and treatment of leukemia (with Martin Cline and David Golde).

Seamus O'Regan

At the age of 10, O'Regan became a regional correspondent for CBC Radio's Anybody Home?, producing stories that celebrated the unique accomplishments of local residents - a professor hunting for giant squid to one woman's fight against leukemia.

Sp100 nuclear antigen

Two proteins, sp100 and promyelocytic leukemia (PML) factor are localized to punctate domains in the nucleus (nuclear dots or nuclear bodies).

Splenectomy

The spleen is enlarged in a variety of conditions such as malaria, mononucleosis and most commonly in cancers of the lymphatics, such as lymphomas or leukemia.

Ted DeVita

While scientists and physicians tried all known treatments for his condition, Ted was isolated in Building 10, in a "laminar airflow room." This specialized room on "13-East" had been created in 1969 to protect leukemia patients whose immune systems had been compromised by chemotherapy.

Thrombopoietin receptor

Myeloproliferative leukemia virus oncogene has been shown to interact with ATXN2L.

Tom Slade

In June 2006, former U-M teammates, including Calvin O'Neal, organized the Tom Slade Marrow Donor Registration Drive to help find marrow donors for Slade and others with leukemia.

Transition state theory

Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) is an enzyme involved in the catabolism and recycling of nucleosides and is a target for the development of novel therapeutic agents for T-cell apoptosis in leukemia and in autoimmune diseases.

Verlon Walker

He served under Durocher through the 1970 season and was still listed as a Cub coach when he died, the following March, from leukemia in Chicago at the age of 42.

Yu Kuo-hwa

He died from complications from leukemia at 4pm on 4 October 2000 at the Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei.


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