Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Count Hideo Kodama, 71, perennial Japanese Cabinet member, onetime majority leader in the House of Peers, a wartime Minister of Education and chief of the economic committee that hoped to develop Asia's occupied areas; of cancer; in Tokyo...
Cash Up. Unprecedented sums of money for research are being readied for cancer investigators. Even the economy-minded U.S. Congress has recognized the need: the House Appropriations Committee, asked by the Budget Bureau to allow some $11,000,000 to the Public Health Service's Cancer Institute, of its own accord upped the allowance by $6,000,000. The House quickly passed and sent to the Senate a $17,828,200 appropriation-more than all previous Government cancer research appropriations combined...
Meantime, the American Cancer Society, sponsor of the "month," is raising $12,000,000, mostly for research in hospitals and universities...
Cosmic Contribution. On the research front, an ingenious investigator has opened up a new line of inquiry. Atomic radiation is known to promote cancer growth. Could cosmic rays, the infinitesimal energy particles that continually bombard the earth from outer space, also promote it? Dr. Frank H. J. Figge, of the University of Maryland Medical School, published in Science some data that seemed to show they...
...mice exposed to varying amounts of cosmic radiation. He varied the cosmic ray concentration by contriving a special cage with a thin lead roof, which does not stop cosmic radiation but intensifies its effect. He injected 184 mice of a susceptible strain with a chemical that almost invariably produces cancer, put some of the mice in ordinary cages and some in the special lead-covered ones. Sure enough, the mice exposed to more intense cosmic radiation developed cancer much faster than the others. Dr. Figge's conclusion: cosmic jays, acting on body cells, may help develop cancer in individuals...