Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Manhattan last week came press reports of advances in the treatment of cancer by radium. Experiments have gone on for some six months at the Memorial Hospital. No final results are claimed, and such cures as have been obtained must wait some time before they can be pronounced permanent...
Some 100 cases of cancer, mostly cancer of various parts of the head have been treated with results described as "very satisfactory." The method of treatment revolves around the use of a system of insulation which prevents the beta rays of radium and X-rays that are caustic to all tissue from reaching the area to be treated. It is believed that the gamma rays are the efficient agents in the treating of cancer by radium. By cutting off the beta rays by insulation, a greater concentration of gamma rays than hitherto could be safely used, may be applied without...
Died. Mrs. Hannah Eldred, 103, at Baldwin, L. I., of cancer. She leaves 202 descendants...
President Little is married and has three children. He is a trustee of the Noble and Greenough School, a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, a member of the American Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Zoologists, and of the American Association for Cancer Research...
...Cancer Cinema. Experimental microphotography was progressing toward a point where a cinema film would be made of the life-cycle of the minute organism that causes cancer, but recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE). Already pictures had been made of bodies one 250-thousandth of an inch in diameter (one-third the size of any of the microscope-aided eye had ever seen). The short-waved ultraviolet ray will some day be made to carry images of bodies one 500-thousandths of an inch and smaller, by making the photographs in a vacuum.? Mr. J. E. Barnard, hatter-scientist...