Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pain Killers. There was more hope for victims of the excruciating pain resulting from angina pectoris and some types of cancer. St. Louis' Surgeon Roland M. Klemme reported a new technique of cutting certain sympathetic nerves in the chest, which stops angina pain without harmful effects; Chicago's Surgeon Jacob P. Greenhill said that a similar operation on abdominal sympathetic nerves often gives permanent relief from pain in cancer of the uterus and other pelvic organs. Also effective: an alcohol injection in the spine...
...laboratory, Thimann has announced, will also conduct extensive experiments to determine the effects of hormones on plant growth. These studies are being financed through funds provided by the American Cancer Foundation in an effort to collect all possible information concerning growth in both plants and animals...
...team of cancer researchers (including groups at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, the University of Chicago, the University of Utah) got busy on the delicate task of concocting a healing dose of mustard. They eventually settled on four intravenous injections, on successive days, of minute amounts (five to seven milligrams) of the poison...
Even these tiny shots induced vomiting, destroyed some blood-forming tissue in the bone marrow and lymph glands. But they did attack certain types of cancer...
...University of Chicago group reported that of 54 patients, most got some relief: their fever and malaise disappeared, their tumors subsided, they gained weight, some went back to work. Nitrogen mustard sometimes worked after X rays had become ineffective. Best results were against incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned, is not a cancer cure. But it i) relieves some patients...