Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human being can live-after a fashion -minus his stomach, his pancreas and half his liver. How much can he lose and still survive? A noted cancer surgeon last week offered some startling new data on that old question...
...Alexander Brunschwig, of the University of Chicago, specializes in operating on cancer patients given up as inoperable by other surgeons. His drastic operations, he admits, rarely cure, but they usually make the patient more comfortable, often prolong life for years. In a clinical report published last week (Radical Surgery in Advanced Abdominal Cancer; University of Chicago Press; $7.50), Dr. Brunschwig described "the most radical [successful] operation yet recorded...
...what was left of the intestinal tract. The patient, left with only part of the intestines to serve as a digestive system, was "quite comfortable" after the operation, "enjoyed his food" (eaten in small, hourly feedings). He lived eight weeks, died not from the operation but from the spreading cancer...
Died. Sidney Toler, 74, veteran stage & screen actor, onetime leading man to Julia Marlowe, best known in recent years for his bland cinemacting of Chinese Detective Charlie Chan; of intestinal cancer; in Hollywood...
Genes Not All. This classical explanation of heredity, taught in every biology textbook, is not wholly satisfactory. Some cells, notably certain cancer cells in mice, seem to develop oddly, defying their hereditary genes. At Indiana University, Dr. Tracy M. Sonneborn found that the one-celled animal paramecium sometimes did this...