Minor wounds that bleed abnormally can be the first sign of leukemia

Evidence

Not all of the leukemia victims in Woburn were children. There was, for instance, Roland Gamache. He lived with his wife, Kathryn, and their two young children in the Pine Street neighborhood, one house away from the Zonas, a few blocks from Anne Anderson. In the summer of 1980, in his thirty-fifth year, Roland had gotten a small cut on his ankle while water-skiing at his summer home in New Hampshire. The wound bled for several hours. It was an annoyance, but it did not seem serious. A week later, back home in Woburn, he went to the dentist to have his teeth cleaned. The next morning he awoke and found blood in his mouth and on his pillow. After many tests at the New England Medical Center, doctors confirmed a diagnosis of chronic myelogenous leukemia. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 423

Categorization

• SHARE: A dentist visit triggering the discovery of leukemia via overnight bleeding is the kind of specific detail worth sending to someone who follows cluster-illness or medical-mystery stories.