Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summing up the reports, the congress president, Dr. Edmund V. Cowdry of Washington University, said: "Slowly we are closing in on the culprit, cancer." Some hopeful researchers predicted that a cure (or cures) may be found within the next 10 to 15 years...
Statistically, the odds against optimism seemed hideously large. In the past decade, cancer deaths reported in the U.S. (180,000 a year) have jumped 25% (due in part to better diagnosis and a longer average life span). The delegates at St. Louis were well aware that, unless a cure is found soon, one out of eight Americans now living will die of cancer...
...Cancer is civilized man's most dreaded disease.* Last week most of the world's leaders in the fight against cancer met in St. Louis to consider how the battle is going. The 800 delegates (from 44 nations) were optimistic...
...there were a few solid gains to report. Laboratory researchers have several new clues to cancer's causes and possible cure. President Truman's announcement of the release of radioactive isotopes to foreign scientists for research (TIME, Sept. 8) was cheered by all. Spurred by the announcement, the delegates voted to set up an international research agency to fight the common enemy...
Died. Hugh McQuillan, 49, who pitched for the New York Giants in three successive pennant victories (1922-24) after being sold by the Boston Braves for $100,000; of cancer; in Queens...