Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Russia, as in the U.S., cancer stands near the head of the list of killers.* Some 70,000 Soviet citizens die each year of gastric cancer alone (in the U.S.: 80,000). By Mayo Clinic standards, the Russians concede that Russian cancer treatment is backward: Russian doctors are less skillful in diagnosis, have three times as many deaths after operation (23%) and less than half as many five-year "cures" (no recurrence) of gastric cancer (12-14%). But the U.S.S.R. is pushing cancer research in twelve cancer institutes and in many hospitals, has made cancer-fighting...
Last week, in the American Review of Soviet Medicine and at a Manhattan symposium held by the American-Soviet Medical Society, Soviet scientists presented a detailed roundup of their cancer work...
...Progress. The most hopeful Russian lead is the KR treatment developed by the University of Moscow's Dr. Grigori Roskin and wife Nina Klyueva (TIME, July 8). Roskin and Klyueva reported that it had been tested on 18 "incurable" cancer patients, had destroyed tumors in eleven...
...discoverers' initials) is derived from Schizatrypanum cruzi, a South American trypanosome that has an affinity for cancer cells. When injected into cancerous mice, it gradually dissolves their tumors, but also kills the mice. Roskin & Klyueva developed a toxin from killed trypanosomes that dissolved cancer cells but was harmless to healthy cells. The cancer-destroying element, they concluded, was not the trypanosome itself but a toxin which it secreted. The toxin has proved safe for human patients...
Diagnosis. In cancer, early diagnosis is almost as important as treatment. Roskin has been working on that problem, too, last week reported progress...