Joined buddy Bill Gates in 1975, left the company in 1983 to fight Hodgkin's disease.

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Arlen Specter (R-PA), who is fighting a recurrence of Hodgkin's Disease, a cancer of the lymph system, also commented on the diagnosis.

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Past histories of Microsoft have said Mr. Allen's departure from the company was sparked by his first brush with cancer in 1982, when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.

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However, none of the six groupings - which included acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, brain tumours and Hodgkin's disease - showed an increasing trend between levels of radiation and rate of disease.

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Hodgkin lymphoma, or HL, was formerly called Hodgkin's disease.

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Among them were Claus Yding-Andersen and his colleagues at University Hospital of Copenhagen, who removed an ovary from a woman who had Hodgkin's disease, and then grafted slices of it back into her other ovary two years later.

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Most patients with nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma present with localized disease in the upper neck.

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