Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1900, some 3,500,000 people in the U. S. have been struck by cancer. Most, of them died of it. Last week the knowledge doctors have gleaned from these victims was collected in three massive volumes: Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases (Hoeber; $36). Edited by Drs. George Thomas Pack and Edward Meakin Livingston of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, this pooled knowledge of top-flight specialists gave doctors a storehouse of practical information...
...Simmons' study of a series of consecutive cases of bone sarcoma is showing that the prognosis of this group of tumors is not as bad as most people seem to believe. Dr. Grantly W. Taylor has been studying on the results obtained in a series of cases of cancer of the breast in which an artificial menopause was induced as a therapeutic measure...
...Boston City Hospital, Dr. Charles C. Lund has been investigating the relation of vitamins to the healing of surgical wounds, which may have some bearing on the cancer problem. Dr. Fletcher Colby and Dr. Richard Dresser are continuing their observations on the treatment of cancer of the bladder by the million volt x-ray machine...
...George A. Leland, who is in charge of the gynecological clinic, is studying the results of the combined treatment by radium and X-ray of cancer of the cervix. The final results of their work will not be made known for several years, but already there are indications that the work can be better done than with radium alone...
...Claude E. Welch and Dr. Nathanson are trying to find what period of time must elapse before carcinoma of various sites can be considered cured. This is based on comparison of the life expectancy curve for cancer with the normal life expectancy curve for a type...