Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When & if a cancer cure ever develops, present indications are that it will be found among the more virulent poisons. Reason: only the deadliest artillery (e.g., poisonous radioactive materials, X rays) can kill a cancer cell. Out last week was the news that during World War II, U.S. cancer specialists had launched an uncommonly interesting study of the cancer-killing possibilities of mustard...
...World War I terror. For World War II, chemists developed (but never used) a variation called "nitrogen mustard" (substituting nitrogen for sulphur). In studying defenses against the new product, they noticed that nitrogen mustard had a special affinity for cells that grow rapidly. Why not try it against cancer cells...
...Cancer. 4. Mental diseases...
Blood-Stream Ferrets. If atomic radiation can inhibit a gland, why not a cancer cell? Dr. Rhoads reported that in some cases radioactive iodine does seem to control thyroid cancer. Exhibit A: at Manhattan's Montefiore Hospital a patient whose cancerous thyroid gland had been removed was discovered to have cancerous daughter cells from the thyroid scattered throughout his body. When he was given radioactive iodine, the radioactive atoms hunted down the cancer cells like ferrets...
Radioactive phosphorus has been tried against certain types of leukemia, a cancer of blood-forming tissues. But in most cases of leukemia and thyroid cancer, these treatments do no permanent good. (One reason: in thyroid cancer, the more malignant the cancer, the less prone it is to pick up iodine.) Dr. Rhoads believes that inorganic elements like iodine and phosphorus offer little real hope...