Leucemia

East View, N. Y.--Roma Garrett, 4, is slowly dying of leucemia. . . . Physicians have abandoned hope of saving her life. Union City, N. J.--Theodora Alosio, 4, a victim of leucemia, was gravely ill. The child's life had been prolonged by four blood transfusions. . . . She died while her parents stood beside her. Memphis, Tenn.--Four-year-old Willie Mae Miller died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back on the table. It was the end. . . . Leucemia. Bound Brook, N. J.--Mrs. Santo Pinto, 48, mother of eleven children, died late yesterday of leucemia, after an illness of 16 months. Orange, N. J.--Mrs. Hazel Sinonair, 30, died today of leucemia. She had been ill for 20 months and in the hospital for four weeks. She was the third Orange woman to die of the dread disease within a year. Buffalo, N. Y.--Failing to rally after a second blood transfusion, the condition of Mary Lobora-Daldan, 3, who is suffering from leucemia, grew steadily weaker today. These press dispatches of the last four weeks and many another like them concerned the most mysterious of blood diseases. White blood cells, policemen of the body, inexplicably multiply and crowd out of the arterial highways vitally necessary red service cells. Leucemia always makes prolonged news for it kills inexorably, a white death which occasionally relaxes, but never releases its hold. There are three main kinds of leucemia: 1) chronic myelogenous leucemia; 2) chronic lymphatic leucemia; 3) acute leucemia. In the chronic myelogenous type the marrow, which produces blood cells, is most affected. Certain white blood cells are produced in exorbitant numbers. They hamper the production of red blood cells and choke off those which manage to get into the blood stream. Result is that the leucemia victim grows anemic, dies. The same bedside picture follows chronic lymphatic leucemia. But here the lymph system is in a rage of activity and smothers other vital processes. The acute form of the disease is explosive. Policemen cells apparently on regular duty suddenly become riotous. Lymph and marrow overwork furiously. Acute cases die within three months whereas the chronic forms last from six months to four or five years. Sunlight, x-ray treatments, arsenic dosage may prolong the leucemic's life. Cause of the disease is undetermined. Some physicians think that it is the result of a tumor in the marrow. Leucemia is by no means rare. During 1932 it took 2,794 lives in the U. S. That was more than the deaths from scarlet fever, erysipelas or any form of tuberculosis, except pulmonary. More than half of 1932's leucemia victims were past 45 and more than 60% were males.

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