NEW YORK, Nov. 9 -- Veteran television reporter
Ed Bradley has died of complications of chronic
lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) at the age of 65.
Bradley, a co-anchor of the CBS newsmagazine "60
Minutes," was diagnosed with CLL "many years
ago," according to Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D.,
his cardiologist and the director of Mount Sinai
Heart at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, where
Bradley died.
However, Dr. Fuster told reporters, the
disease was not life-threatening until recently
when Bradley contracted an infection that his
damaged immune system was unable to defeat.
CLL is characterized by a progressive
accumulation of functionally incompetent
lymphocytes and is the most common form of
leukemia among adults. Up to 17,000 new cases
are reported yearly in the U.S.
In most cases, the affected lymphocytes are
B-cells, arrested in the process of
differentiation between pre-B-cells and mature
B-cells. They resemble mature lymphocytes, but
express low levels of surface membrane
immunoglobulin.
The disease is most often seen in people
older the 55, although the rate of occurrence in
younger people is rising.
The natural history of the disease is highly
variable. Some patients die quickly because of
CLL complications but the majority of patients
live between five and 10 years.
CLL has a wide range of symptoms and it is
relatively common for a diagnosis to be made
after a blood cell count performed for another
reason. Among the symptoms:
- A predisposition to repeated infections.
- Enlarged lymph nodes and localized or
generalized lymph node infections.
- Splenomegaly occurs in between 30 and
40% of cases, and patients may complain of
early satiety or abdominal discomfort
because of the enlarged spleen.
- Hepatomegaly occurs in about 20% of
cases.
- Patients may suffer bleeding in the
mucous membranes or petechiae owing to
thrombocytopenia.
- Patients may have tiredness and fatigue
because of anemia.
In most cases, treatment at diagnosis is not
indicated, unless the disease is aggressive,
because studies have shown that early therapy
has little advantage. Treatment options include:
- Prednisolone alone may be useful in
patients whose disease has aspects of
autoimmunity.
- Nucleoside analogs, such as Fludara
(fludarabine) and Leustatin (cladribine),
have activity against indolent lymphoid
malignancies, including CLL.
- Combination regimens, such as
cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and
prednisone (CAP), have shown good response
rates in several studies but no survival
advantage.
- Monoclonal antibodies, such as Rituxan
(rituximab), are in use as second-line or
third-line treatments and new agents are in
clinical trials.
Bradley was awarded 19 Emmys, including one
for a report on the reopening of the 50-year-old
racial murder case of Emmett Till and another
for interview with condemned Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh, according to CBS. .
Source:
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We had a worker,
Steve Provant of the
EVOS who died of complications of CLL. (Had
gall bladder removal surgery & never recovered).
Another worker, Joy Snodgrass, had CLL & was
not well enough to take treatments.
Chemical exposure that should be suspect is
2-butoxyethanol. Causes leukemias, NHL, brain
tumors, autoimmune issues, diabetes, CFIDS.
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Official CBS Biograghy:
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 60
Minutes and CBS News Correspondent
Ed Bradley. (CBS)
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(CBS) Ed Bradley
passed away on Nov. 9, 2006 at Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York City of
complications from leukemia. He was 65 years
old.
The 2006-07 season marks Ed Bradley’s 26th
on
60 Minutes. He joined the
broadcast during the 1981-82 season. He also
anchors and reports hour-long specials.
Bradley’s consummate skills as a broadcast
journalist and his distinctive body of work
have been recognized with numerous awards,
including 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment
that reported the reopening of the
50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett
Till. He was just honored with the Lifetime
Achievement award from the National
Association of Black Journalists. Three of
his Emmys came at the 2003 awards: a
Lifetime Achievement Emmy; one for a
60 Minutes report on brain cancer
patients, "A New Lease on Life" (April
2002); and another for his hour on
60
Minutes II about sexual abuse in the
Catholic Church, “The Catholic Church on
Trial” (June 2002). Bradley’s
60
Minutes interview with condemned
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (March
2000) was the only television interview ever
given by the man guilty of one of the worst
terrorist acts on American soil; it also
earned Bradley an Emmy. His reporting on the
worst school shooting in American history,
“Columbine” (April 2001), revealed on
60 Minutes II that authorities
ignored telling evidence with which they
might have prevented the massacre. Other
hourlong reports by Bradley have prompted
praise and action: “Death by Denial” (June
2000) won a Peabody Award for focusing on
the plight of Africans dying of AIDS and
helped convince drug companies to donate and
discount AIDS drugs; “Unsafe Haven” (April
1999) spurred federal investigations into
the nation’s largest chain of psychiatric
hospitals; and “Town Under Siege” (December
1997), about a small town battling toxic
waste, was named one of the Ten Best
Television Programs of 1997 by Time
magazine.
Bradley’s significant contribution to
electronic journalism was also recognized by
the Radio/Television News Directors
Association when it named him its Paul White
Award winner for 2000. He joins other
distinguished journalists, such as Edward R.
Murrow, Walter Cronkite and Peter Jennings,
as a Paul White recipient. More recently,
the Denver Press Club awarded him its 2003
Damon Runyon Award for career journalistic
excellence. Another prestigious honor
received by Bradley is the Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Awards grand prize and television
first prize for "CBS Reports: In the Killing
Fields of America" (January 1995), a
documentary about violence in America, for
which he was co-anchor and reporter.
His work on
60 Minutes has
gained much recognition, including a George
Foster Peabody Award for “Big Man, Big
Voice” (November 1997), the uplifting story
of a German singer who became successful
despite birth defects. In 1995, he won his
11th Emmy Award for a
60 Minutes
segment on the cruel effects of nuclear
testing in the town of Semipalatinsk,
Kazakhstan, a report that also won him an
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
in 1994. Also in 1994, he was honored with
an Overseas Press Club Award for two
60 Minutes reports that took viewers
inside sensitive military installations in
Russia and the United States. In 1985, he
received an Emmy Award for “Schizophrenia,”
a
60 Minutes report on that
misunderstood brain disorder. In 1983, two
of Bradley’s reports for
60 Minutes
won Emmy Awards: “In the Belly of the
Beast,” an interview with Jack Henry Abbott,
a convicted murderer and author, and “Lena,”
a profile of singer Lena Horne. He received
an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University
Silver Baton and a 1991 Emmy Award for his
60 Minutes report “Made in
China,” a look at Chinese forced-labor
camps, and another Emmy for “Caitlin’s
Story” (November 1992), an examination of
the controversy between the parents of a
deaf child and a deaf association. In
addition to “In the Killing Fields,” his
work for "CBS Reports" has included: “Enter
the Jury Room” (April 1997), an Alfred I.
duPont-Columbia University Award winner that
revealed the jury deliberation process for
the first time in front of network cameras;
“The Boat People” (January 1979), which won
duPont, Emmy and Overseas Press Club Awards;
“The Boston Goes to China” (April 1979), a
report on the historic visit to China by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, which won Emmy,
Peabody and Ohio State Awards, and “Blacks
in America: With All Deliberate Speed?”
(July 1979), which won Emmy and duPont
Awards.
Bradley’s coverage of the plight of
Cambodian refugees, broadcast on the
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
and
CBS News Sunday Morning, won a
George Polk Award in journalism. He also
received a duPont citation for a segment on
the Cambodian situation broadcast on CBS
News’ “Magazine” series. He covered the
presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter during
Campaign ‘76, served as a floor
correspondent for CBS News’ coverage of the
Democratic and Republican National
Conventions from 1976 through 1996, and has
participated in CBS News’ election-night
coverage.
Prior to joining
60 Minutes,
Bradley was a principal correspondent for
"CBS Reports" (1978-81), after serving as
CBS News' White House correspondent
(1976-78). He was also anchor of the "CBS
Sunday Night News” (November 1976-May 1981)
and of the CBS News magazine "Street
Stories" (January 1992-August 1993).
Bradley joined CBS News as a stringer in its
Paris bureau in September 1971. A year
later, he was transferred to the Saigon
bureau, where he remained until he was
assigned to the CBS News Washington bureau
in June 1974. He was named a CBS News
correspondent in April 1973 and, shortly
thereafter, was wounded while on assignment
in Cambodia. In March 1975, he volunteered
to return to Indochina and covered the fall
of Cambodia and Vietnam.
Prior to joining CBS News, he was a reporter
for WCBS Radio, the CBS Owned station in New
York (August 1967-July 1971). He had
previously been a reporter for WDAS Radio
Philadelphia (1963-67).
Bradley was born June 22, 1941, in
Philadelphia and was graduated from Cheyney
(Pa.) State College in 1964 with a B.S. in
education. He lives in New York with his
wife, Patricia Blanchet.
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There is a primary chemical that can cause
leukemia & brain tumors.
Count the times of serious 'flu' symptoms to
find exposure to 2-butoxyethanol.
May I repost Ed Bradley's bio on a website I
do... & give your site the reference.
His folks could have been exposed. He also
had possibility of exposure to it in Vietnam
and in talking with a lot of Gulf war
syndrome vets.
What were 'complications' of leukemia?
Did his doctors also find
AIHA or IMHA ?
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Say 'gulf war vets:"
WE also honor ED Bradley. Mr
Bradley reported on gulf war illness for
60 minute pieces, he will be missed.
I still remember him at the Shays
hearing confronting Dr Joseph.
Many of us have talked to him
directly and will miss him greatly.....
......... ...
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