Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan one night this week, a group of doctors and scientists listened intently as a tall, dark-haired surgeon talked about the biggest subject in medicine: cancer. Dr. Saul P. Lehv of Harlem Hospital was reporting on the first controlled study of a new cancer treatment. In guarded, technical language, he described a series of cases...
Patient E.G., 65, was dying of prostate cancer. The disease had spread to his bones and spine. He was paralyzed from the waist down. His legs were doubled up in a spasm and he was faint with pain. Two months ago the doctor began to give him daily injections. The patient was beyond noticing that he was getting a new medicine. But in three weeks he could move his legs. The pain slipped out of his body and he began to eat heartily. Last week, on shaky legs, he walked. Said a neurologist's report on the patient...
Patient B.H., 65, had a cancer of the esophagus. He could swallow no solid food. After the fifth injection, he ate a chicken dinner...
...Lehv told of trying the new drug in 20 cases. All were in the last, dying stage of cancer, beyond help from any standard treatment. Five of the 20 died in spite of the new drug. But in every case the drug had dramatically stopped the pain and at least made the patients feel healthy and cheerful. One patient, nine hours before he died, had felt so well that he demanded to be sent home...
Handy Old Weapon. The only weapon he knew how to use was money. After looking over the field, Maurice concluded that his money would do the most good at the University of Chicago. The university was already spending upwards of $500,000 a year on cancer research. The scientists of several departments, including nuclear physicists who helped develop the atom bomb, had worked out a cooperative program to find cancer's cause & cure...