Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cancer of the Stomach, which accounts for more than 30% of all cancers in the U.S., and kills at least 150 middle-aged persons every day. Almost half of these victims could be saved by surgery, says Dr. Cramer, if they saw a doctor as soon as their stomachs kicked up. For there are three easily detectable "pre-cancerous" states: 1) stomach ulcers, which sometimes become malignant; 2) polyps (small growths) in the lining of the stomach; 3) chronic gastritis (inflammation of the lining of the stomach, with symptoms of burning nausea, vomiting, etc.). Persons whose relatives have gastric cancer...
...Breast Cancer, which first shows up as tiny lumps in the breast, and can also be cured if removed early. (The percentage of breast-cancer victims who reach a surgeon in time for operation has risen from 23% in 1920 to 61% in 1935, because more women are on the lookout for suspicious nodes.) This type of cancer is apparently caused by abnormal activity of female sex hormones, acting in balance with the pituitary and adrenal glands. Breast cancer definitely runs in families...
Occupational Cancers, which are caused by external environmental agents such as X rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, certain complex tar and benzine compounds, hundreds of other carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals. Farmers and sailors may develop skin cancer through long exposure to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Cotton spinners in Britain, who are constantly exposed to the carcinogenic mineral oil used in lubricating the spindles, may develop "mule spinners' cancer" of the scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive...
...Liver Cancer, rare in the U.S. and Europe, but the most common form of the disease in the Orient and Africa. Reason: the Oriental diet consists chiefly of rice and vegetables. This diet makes the liver susceptible to cancerous destruction by some unknown agent. In Occidental countries, the liver is resistant to the unidentified cancer factor because it is protected by diets of milk, dairy products, wheat flour. These facts, said Dr. Cramer, show that cancer of the liver, at least, can be prevented by proper food...
...youth, an arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille which now shields the wet stones of the grotto, Werfel ceases to be the reverent and grateful craftsman. He becomes, for a few pages, one of the best things...