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. .
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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: fair use
 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 possiblity 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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