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(AP) — Hodg kin’s disease, the form of cancer that has stricken New York Giants tackle Karl Nelson, is one of the most trea table and survivable forms of the dis ease, although its cause remains un known, doctors and researchers said Tuesday. The disease attacks the body’s lymphatic system and is character ized mostly by the progressive en largement of the lymph nodes. “Basically, Hodgkin’s disease is a mystery to a lot of people,” said Dr. Alan Lippman, associate director of the oncology department at Newark Beth Israel Hospital. “The more doctors examine it, the more ques tions we have. We really don’t know how to classify it.” The disease first was described by English physician Thomas Hodgkin more than a century ago. Until 1947, it was considered an infectious dis ease rather than a cancer, said Larry Garfinkel, vice president of epide miology and statistics for the Ameri can Cancer Society. “What’s peculiar about it is that is has the features of a malignancy and also the features of a chronic infec tion, at least under a mircoscope,” said Dr. Robert Krigel, director of hematology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Hodgkin’s disease occurs at any age, although the American Cancer Society said it mostly strikes young adults 15 to 35. Its symptoms include swelling in the arm, neck or groin areas, and can also be accompanied by fever, weight loss, back or abdominal pain, night sweats, nausea and vomiting. In Nelson’s case, the disease was discovered during a routine chest X- ray prior to arthroscopic surgery for an arthritic condition in his left shoulder. Once the cancer is detected, a bi- P< evaluated. Lippman said Hodgkins is classi fied by four stages. In Stage I, only one area of the body is involved. Stage II is two areas, such as the neck and arm. Stage III is two areas in different parts of the body, such as neck and groin, and Stage IV, the most serious, is when the disease has spread to an internal organ. Nelson has been diagnosed as Stage I, according to the Giants team physician. There are also three or four sub classifications of the disease, de pending on what cells are found in the affected lymph nodes, Lippman said. In almost all cases, the prescribed treatment is radiation, chemothe rapy or a combination of the two. “We look at Hodgkin’s disease as the model for the way we would like to approach all cancer,” Krigel said. “The way we have achieved such good success with Hodgkin’s is we have learned to target our treat ments to the specific extent of the cancer, which we call the stage of the disease. We have learned how Hodg kin’s spread from one lymph noae group to another.” Lippman said treatment for the disease usually lasts six to eight months and that there can be some side effects. There is no hair loss when radiation is used but a loss of appetite may occur. With chemothe rapy, a loss of hair, nausea and diar rhea may occur. The American Cancer Society said the overall chances of a Hodg kin’s patient surviving five years is 71 percent, but that the survival rate for Stage I patients is about 90 per cent. In Nelson’s case, doctors have said the player’s chances for recovery are excellent. Palmer says Sutton demonstrated scuffing techniques NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Palmer, a three-time Cy Young award win ner when he pitched for the Balti more Orioles, said Tuesday that Don Sutton told him several years ago the best way to scuff a ball was to use sandpaper pasted on the glove hand. Palmer recalled the advice, un aware that a television close-up shot Monday night showed a patch of some sort in the California Angels right-hander’s left hand as he rubbed up the ball in a game against the visiting New York Yankees. Sutton, who has been accused of scuffing the ball, said the patch was a bandage to cover a blister. Palmer said Sutton told him in the “early 1980s” how to doctor a ball. “Don told me to just take some sandpaper and Super Glue, put it on your glove hand and when you rub up the ball, kind of scuff it,” Palmer said. Palmer recalled that Sutton’s ad vice did not work for him. “I was working on it in the bullpen and it was so humid that night, 95- degrees and humidity to match,” Palmer said. “The sandpaper kept falling off my hand and my skin was coming off because glue was taking it with it.” Sutton, a winner of 318 games in a big-league career that began in 1966, pleaded innocent to doctoring the ball. “Some of the guys told me af terward that they were (zooming in),” he said. “It probably made for very entertaining (TV). I suppose you are not going to buy that it was pictures of my kids. And, you proba bly wouldn’t buy that it was (a ban dage) covering up a blister, which it was. “But I give you my word, it wasn’t sandpaper, it wasn’t an emery board and I don’t mind being checked on the mound by the umpires, ever.” In his previous start, Wednesday night against Baltimore, the 42-year- old veteran was accused of scuffing several baseballs, and three balls were forwarded to the American League office by umpire Don Den- kinger. The Yankees, who won Monday night’s game 3-2 in 11 innings, did not ask for any balls to be checked, although home plate umpire Rick Reed did remove the ball Sutton used to strike out Rick Cerone in the fifth. Sutton, 8-10 this season with a 4.36 earned run average, allowed three hits and two runs, both earned, in seven innings. He walked one and struck out five. 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