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It is often said that Marie Skłodowska-Curie died of "aplastic anemia." Try Googling it; you'll find many hits. But I am not so sure. She died on July 4th, 1934, at a sanatorium called Sancellemoz, in Passy, Haute-Savoie, France, after a long illness. #aplasticanemia #MDS /1
The 1937 biography by her younger daughter Ève describes her final illness, including a consultation at Sancellemoz (postcard) by a "Professor Roch." That would have been Maurice Roch, Regent of @UNIGEnews & father of famous Alpinist André Roch who planned Aspen, Colorado./3 
Here is how the daughter's biography describes that consultation. Mention is made of fevers and blood tests - rapidly falling WBC & RBC counts - and that X-rays were done. (The last thing she needed: more radiation!). Diagnosis: "Pernicious anaemia in its extreme form." /3
