Research Results For 'Leukaemia'

ANDY DEVINE

Andy Devine was an American comedy actor. He was born in 1905 at Flagstaff, Arizona and died in 1977 of leukaemia.
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CLARENCE NASH

Clarence Nash (also known as Clarence Ducky Nash) was an American actor. He was born in 1904 at Watonga, Oklahoma and died in 1985 of leukaemia. He is nest known for providing the voice of Walt Disney's character Donald Duck.
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JOHN IRELAND

John Ireland was a Canadian actor. He was born in 1914 at Vancouver, British Columbia and died in 1992 of leukaemia.
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GAIL PATRICK

Gail Patrick (real name Margaret LaVelle Fitzpatrick) was an American actress and film producer. She was born in 1911 at Birmingham, Alabama and died in 1980 of leukaemia.
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JEAN PETERS

Jean Peters was an American actress. She was born in 1926 at Canton, Ohio and died in 2000 of leukaemia.
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KAY KENDALL

Kay Kendall (real name Justine Kendall McCarthy) was a British chorus girl and actress. She was born in 1926 and died in 1959 of leukaemia.
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CHLORAMBUCIL

Chlorambucil is a drug derived from nitrogen mustard, administered orally in the treatment of leukaemia and other malignant diseases.
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CORTISONE

Cortisone is a glucocorticoid hormone, the synthetic form of which has been used in treating rheumatoid arthritis, allergic and skin diseases, leukaemia and other diseases.
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HTLV

HTLV (human T-cell lymphotrophic virus) is any one of a small family of viruses that cause certain rare diseases in the T-cells of humans. For example HTLV I causes a form of leukaemia.
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LEUCOCYTOSIS

Leucocytosis is the name given to a condition of the blood in which the leucocytes or white corpuscles in the blood plasma are increased in number. These leucocytes are minute protoplasmic cells, which have the power of movement and can pass out of the smallest capillary blood vessels into the surrounding tissues. They act as scavengers, and play an important part in the destruction and removal of bacteria in the body, a process known as phagocytosis.

The leucocytes are of different types, and normal blood contains a fairly constant proportion of each type. In infection or inflammation the leucocytes become greatly increased in number; the leucocytes which are killed in the attack on the bacteria form pus. In certain blood diseases, of which leukaemia is the best example, the increase is also often enormous, even reaching to 80,000 and 100,000 white corpuscles in a cubic millimetre of blood which normally contains only from 5,000 to 6,000. The symptoms of this disease are very similar to those of anaemia, and the diagnosis is confirmed by microscopic examination of the blood. The leukaemias are accompanied by swelling of the glands but this also occurs in other diseases.

A small increase of the white corpuscles is found in such a great number of the more common diseases that an examination of the blood is often made as a routine measure. In many cases, for instance, of appendicitis, the white corpuscles increase to from 15,000 to 20,000 per cubic millimetre; in pneumonia they also increase sometimes to 40,000 per cubic millimetre. In other more common diseases such as tonsilitis or sore throat, erysipelas, in smallpox, and inflammatory diseases such as septicaemia, boils, bone diseases and pyaemia, a greater or less increase is always found. In other diseases absence of an increase often enables the right diagnosis to be made, since in typhoid fever (which might in the early stages be mistaken for appendicitis) there would be no increase in the early stage of the disease, but it would probably be marked in the latter stages. In whooping-cough a marked leucocytosis occurs, which may confirm a doubtful diagnosis.
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