Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening night profits will go to the American Cancer Society, and the HDC announces that ticket sales are good, especially for first night and weekend performances...
Called for: a $10,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to Paris' Radium Institute; by French Journalist Eve Curie, daughter of radium discoverers Pierre and Marie. Daughter Eve was invited to pick up the grant at the society's banquet in Philadelphia this week. Available in the U.S. but not invited: Eve's fellow-traveling sister Irene, a director of the institute's physics laboratories...
Died. Emile St. Godard, 42, onetime king of the dog-team racers; of cancer; in The Pas, Manitoba. At 19 he won his first major race (200 miles over rough terrain in about 30 hours), later the same year won the Eastern International Dog Derby, so dominated the field for the next ten years that fans referred to the races as "St. Godard against the field." Occasionally he finished tough races with two or three dog-tired huskies riding in the sled...
...Alamine. A radioactive isotope of carbon has carried three doctors from Boston's Huntington Hospital a little farther toward showing just how cancer cells and normal cells differ. Drs. P. C. Zamecnik, I. D. Frantz Jr., and R. B. Loftfield tagged a protein-building amino acid called l-alzmine with the isotope, watched what cancer tissue and normal liver tissue did with it in test tubes. They found that cancerous livers absorbed the amino acid much faster than normal livers. Eventually, their experiments might help explain why cancer cells grow disastrously faster than normal cells...
Polysaccharides. Cancers in mice have been destroyed by some bacterial polysaccharides (enormous sugarlike molecules derived from bacteria), reported Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Lankenau Hospital's Research Institute in Philadelphia. Drawbacks: 1) repeated doses have little or no effect because the mice build up an immunity to the substance; 2) doses high enough to bypass the immunity may kill the mice as well as the cancer...