Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most progressive steps has been to bring cancer out of the back bedroom into the clinic. But it has been necessary to teach people that cancer is not directly transmitted from parent to child, and can be mentioned in newspaper obituaries without stigma; that it does not stem from alcoholic or sexual excesses; that it is no more contagious than a broken leg; that housewives cannot contract it (as a few seem to believe) by using aluminum cookers or electric refrigerators...
...guinea pig was a volunteer-Fred Learned, onetime farm editor, now an employe of the American Cancer Society. Two days before the big banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he had taken a dose of radioactive iodine; now handsome, scholarly Dr. Robley D. Evans, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would demonstrate how the substance, a product of atomic research, could combat cancer of the thyroid...
Conclusion: if Learned had had thyroid cancer, the radioactive iodine (the thyroid gland shows an affinity for iodine) would have attacked the cancerous tissue. With the caution which characterizes all statements on cancer. Physicist Evans emphasized that radioactive iodine was effective only against cancer of the thyroid...
...from Atoms? Radioactive study is but one of 19 fields which the American Cancer Society is exploring. Down through the years, a defensive battle has been fought with weapons both good & bad: the knife, X ray, radium bullets, chemotherapy, heat, cold ("frozen sleep"), drugs, diet, prayer, many a quack salve and medicine. Treatment today, as it has been since the time Hippocrates used a soldering iron against tumors, is based largely on one principle: destruction or removal of diseased tissue. Not until last year was a major campaign against cancer instituted, with top scientists, doctors and businessmen united...
Said Eric A. Johnston last week in launching a campaign for $12,000,000, to fight cancer: ". . . We are entering on an era of new hope. . . ." The problem of cancer research, he concluded, was comparable to the problem of atomic research ten, 15 or 20 years...