Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does a cancer behave differently from normal tissue? At Yale University's Medical School, a lanky, greying pathologist named Harry Sylvestre Nutting Greene is looking for an answer to this basic question...
...Greene's "laboratory" is a guinea pig's eye. Delicately, he plants various types of foreign tissue in the pigs' eyes. Some "take" and grow. Sometimes the transplanted tissue becomes cancerous. Sometimes it develops the characteristics of functioning organs. Cancer specialists, who used to be skeptical, have begun to take a lively interest in Dr. Greene's work. Last week the doctor talked about it before a distinguished audience at the American Cancer Society's annual meeting in Manhattan...
...Cancer tissue, as researchers have long known, can easily be transplanted from one mammalian species to another. When Dr. Greene grafted human cancer tissue on a guinea pig's eye (a nourishing and easy-to-watch site for experiment), the transplanted cancer thrived in its new environment. But his efforts to transplant normal adult human tissue to the guinea pig's eye failed...
That gave the doctor an idea. Under the microscope, one type of normal animal tissue-embryonic-closely resembles cancer. Dr. Greene planted some embryonic tissue in guinea pigs' eyes. It worked. In a guinea pig's eye, transplanted embryonic breast tissue gave milk, tissue from the testes produced sperm...
Recent advances in research control of cancer and the progress of the nationwide campaign against it will be the topic for a meeting at the medical School on November 16. The School of Public Health is sponsoring the program, which is open to the general public...