Lymphoma

Columbia developer James W. Rouse has been diagnosed with a treatable form of lymphoma and is receiving chemotherapy as an outpatient, a spokesman for the Enterprise Foundation said yesterday.Mr. Rouse, who also is founder-chairman of the Columbia-based foundation that seeks to build affordable housing nationwide, was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital late last month for a week of tests after complaining of fatigue, said Mark Burneko, Enterprise Foundation spokesman, speaking on behalf of the Rouse family.

With visible excitement, Chris Glass runs his finger across a large wall map of the world at the world headquarters of the nonprofit, IMA World Health, in New Windsor. He carefully traces his route to Tanzania, then taps his finger gently on Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest peak on the African continent. In a few weeks, Glass, a Westminster native and a communications officer with IMA World Health, will be climbing the 19,336-foot summit. His objective is to raise both awareness and funding to fight for Burkitt's lymphoma, a particularly aggressive form of childhood cancer for which IMA provides treatment in Tanzania and other Third World countries.

Ann Bianco Alexander, a Baltimore actress whose successful struggle to overcome lymphoma nearly a decade ago allowed her to return to the stage, died of pneumonia Monday at University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 47 and lived in Ellicott City. She was born Ann Marie Bianco in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville. Her interest in singing and performing began in her childhood when she and her siblings put on backyard shows and used a tape recorder to script imaginary radio shows. By the age of 12, she was taking voice lessons, and during her high school years, she regularly appeared in drama club productions at Woodlawn High School.

Will Adams, freshman basketball player at Towson University, could be mad at the world about all the misfortune life dumped at his Philadelphia doorstep. There was the woman, his birth mother, who abandoned him to a series of foster homes at 3. There was the hit-and-run driver, racing through a yellow light, who dragged him and his bike a full city block, leaving Adams with compound fractures in both legs at 9. There was the cancer that ate away at his athlete's body for months before anyone knew, devouring his basketball dream when he was 18. It was as if he had a personal curse writing the storyline of his life.

Howard County Public Schools superintendent Sydney Cousin, who is on medical leave battling lymphoma, will not return to work until after spring break in late April, a memo released Wednesday to school system employees said. The county superintendent since 2004, Cousin took an indefinite medical leave in early January. Earlier this month, school officials announced that he was battling lymphoma and would be out at least until March 1. On Wednesday, a memo to employees said that while Cousin looks forward to returning to the school system, his doctors have advised him to wait until after spring break.

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- They sighed with relief as they walked up the first fairway at Augusta National yesterday morning, having TC survived the jittery ritual of hitting their first shots at the Masters."

Gary Jobson is having a "good day," his first really good day in a long time. The sailing celebrity - America's Cup winner, ESPN commentator and producer - walks swiftly around downtown Annapolis on an afternoon as bright and sunny as his mood. He talks eagerly about the book he's writing about racing. And, he jokes about his thin, wispy tufts of white hair, telling a guest he's sporting "the hatched-chicken look," the result of chemotherapy. For the last few months, the sailing world has been without its mainstay as Jobson, one of the nation's most recognizable sailors, has canceled appearances around the country for the first time in years.

The superintendent of Howard County's school system, often regarded as one of the best in the nation, said Monday that he will leave his post when his contract expires next year because of health problems. Sydney Cousin said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun that not only has he been receiving treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but he was diagnosed with an undetermined neurological condition, which forced him recently to take a nearly four-month medical leave of absence. "My health and condition will determine whether I stay long-term, and long-term for me is June 2012, when my contract is up. I can say categorically that I will not go beyond that," Cousin said during an interview in his Board of Education office in Ellicott City.

Jack M. Bickham,67, a former newsman and journalism professor who wrote 75 novels and six instructional books on the craft of fiction, died Friday of lymphoma in Norman, Okla. Two of his books, "The Apple Dumpling Gang" and "Baker's Hawk," were made into movies.Pub Date: 7/28/97

Joe Shapiro, the husband of Baltimore tennis star Pam Shriver and the former general counsel for the Walt Disney Co., died Thursday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long battle with lymphoma. He was 52.Mr. Shapiro married Ms. Shriver, once the No. 3 tennis player in the world, during a celebrity-studded wedding in December at La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs, Calif. The couple lived in Brentwood, Calif.A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School, Mr. Shapiro worked as chief negotiator with the French government on the Disney theme park in Paris, a $2.3 billion hotel and theme park.

The superintendent of Howard County's school system, often regarded as one of the best in the nation, said Monday that he will leave his post when his contract expires next year because of health problems. Sydney Cousin said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun that not only has he been receiving treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but he was diagnosed with an undetermined neurological condition, which forced him recently to take a nearly four-month medical leave of absence. "My health and condition will determine whether I stay long-term, and long-term for me is June 2012, when my contract is up. I can say categorically that I will not go beyond that," Cousin said during an interview in his Board of Education office in Ellicott City.

Howard County Public Schools superintendent Sydney Cousin, who is on medical leave battling lymphoma, will not return to work until after spring break in late April, a memo released Wednesday to school system employees said. The county superintendent since 2004, Cousin took an indefinite medical leave in early January. Earlier this month, school officials announced that he was battling lymphoma and would be out at least until March 1. On Wednesday, a memo to employees said that while Cousin looks forward to returning to the school system, his doctors have advised him to wait until after spring break.

Session set Oct. 11 on mental illness The Howard County chapter of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) will sponsor "In Our Own Voice: Living with Mental Illness" from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 11 at Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, 10431 Twin River Road, Columbia. Local residents whose lives were interrupted by mental illness will speak. The program seeks to convey how people with serious mental disorders cope with the reality of their illness and reclaim productive lives. The event is open to everyone.

The Navy football team is hoping senior reserve slotback Eddie Martin, who was stricken with a sudden illness, will recover and rejoin the Midshipmen by the time they open their season against East Carolina on Sept. 2. Martin, who reported to the academy last week complaining of severe stomach pain, has been diagnosed with cancer. The Capital of Annapolis reported yesterday that Martin, now resting at the National Naval Medical Center, was to begin chemotherapy treatment for lymphoma. "Anytime something like that happens, there's no good way to hear it. You could tell Eddie didn't feel well," Navy coach Paul Johnson said.

ANN ELIZABETH METZ of Ellicott City, age 24, died Feb. 7 of leukemia. She graduated with a BS in Nursing from the Univ. of MD in 2004 and turned her experiences with cancer into a comic book Adventures of Chemotherapy, which won local attention. She is survived by her parents David and Deborah Metz, her loving brother Daniel, grandfather Kenneth Metz, grandmother Dorothy Dootson, and devoted boyfriend Dr. Matthew Hall. Because she donated her body to science, there will be no funeral. In lieu of flowers and cards, please contribute to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, www.leukemia.

On September 9, 2005, SUE FEDER MILLER, beloved wife of Larry Miller, loving daughter of Marvin and Rhoda Feder, dear sister of Nunette and Richard Williams and Mitchell Feder, adoring aunt of Eric and Alex Williams and Melanie and Andrea Feder. Services and Interment private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society or Baltimore Jewish Cultural Chauvrah. Arrangements by THE JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME, P.A.

Former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas of Massachusetts was admitted to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston yesterday for further treatment of lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, officials of the hospital said.Mr. Tsongas, a Democratic Party presidential candidate last year, was reported in good condition. He entered the hospital for monitoring of the chemotherapy he is receiving in his latest battle against lymphoma.Mr. Tsongas, 51, said in a statement that he had asked Dana-Farber officials not to issue further statements about his condition until the treatment is completed.

BOSTON -- Contrary to their earlier assurances, Paul E. Tsongas' doctors now say that he suffered a recurrence of lymphoma in 1987, less than a year after undergoing an experimental bone marrow transplant, and was treated with an additional course of radiation for the cancer.Mr. Tsongas said in an interview Monday that he did not recall his doctors saying that a biopsy of a lymph node from his armpit in the summer of 1987 showed cancer, as the doctors say they did.Mr. Tsongas, who is the first known cancer survivor to run for president, has remained free of lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, for five years.

On April 1, 2005, of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma at home, DANIEL ROSS, of Finksburg; husband of Jintao Stephens; father of Spencer Stephens; son of Jack and Barbara Hust Stephens; brother of Timothy Stephens; brother-in-law of Melinda Stephens. Also survived by one niece and one nephew. Friends may call at the Pritts Funeral Home & Chapel, P.A., 412 Washington Blvd., Westminster, on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M., where services will be held on Monday at 2 P.M. Interment Sandy Mount Cemetery.