Word: brunschwig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memorial has no secret cures for cancer. Its staff has comparatively few world-renowned cancer fighters (one of the few: Surgeon Alexander Brunschwig, formerly of the University of Chicago (TIME, March 17). But its able, well-coordinated team is waging a hard-hitting campaign against cancer on four fronts-prevention, treatment, teaching, research...
...life worth living after such a drastic operation? Dr. Brunschwig, taking issue with many doctors, answers an emphatic yes. At worst (if the patient survives), such surgery relieves suffering; at best, it may restore a hopeless, lingering invalid to useful work and a nearly normal life...
...hopeless" patients who submitted to Dr. Brunschwig's radical surgery, 34 died within a month. But 49 were greatly helped; of these 19 are still alive, one to ten years after their operations. Among them: a 50-year-old laborer who can do a full day's work though he lacks stomach and spleen...
...Brunschwig's methods include massive transfusions (as much as twelve pints of blood and plasma in some cases) and big liquid feedings by injection, before & after the operation. Most of the functions of the stomach, pancreas and some other organs, Brunschwig points out, can be performed by substitutes: a section of intestine takes the place of the stomach, a thin slice of pancreas left in the body, or injections, can supply the body's insulin needs...
...Brunschwig's conclusion: a man could probably survive with part of one adrenal gland, part of the liver, about 30% of the small bowel, one kidney, a few other abdominal odds & ends...