Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some unexplored questions: What makes healthy people healthy? Why has the prevalence of intestinal ulcers, once rare, risen so enormously in the 20th Century? Why did the stillbirth rate in Wales, and tuberculosis in Britain, drop sharply during the war? Why do workingmen die of stomach and skin cancer twice as often as professional men? Why do doctors have twelve times as high a death rate from angina pectoris as farm workers...
These closely related disorders are the basic cause of strokes, most heart attacks and Bright's disease; they are rapidly becoming the leading cause of death among pregnant women. Already they kill three times as many as cancer. At the present rate, half the children born today will die from these circulatory diseases-and many more will be disabled...
What causes Hodgkin's disease and how is it carried? One school considers it a form of cancer, with the body's own cells getting out of control. In 1944, investigators found "inclusion bodies" (possibly indicating virus infection) in affected tissues. The discovery was important: if the disease is really caused by a virus, a vaccine may eventually be developed...
...Hodgkin's Disease Research Foundation will set up clinics throughout the U.S. where patients can be cared for and studied. Its laboratories, while concentrating on Hodgkin's disease, will be double-spurred by the hope of finding some clues to a cure for the big enemy-cancer...
Died. Dr. Auguste Champetier de Ribes, 64, veteran French politician, president of the Council of the Republic (upper house of parliament in the Fourth Republic), head of France's prosecuting staff at the Nürnberg trials; of cancer; in Paris...