Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What radium and X rays now do for cancer, the synthetic radioactive substances will presumably do better. The chances are that no more radium will be refined, though the uranium mined with it has a new, spectacular market...
...Many people," he concludes, "have described Japanese militarism as a cancer. Too few have emphasized the danger of removing it without destroying the roots...
...Simenon's latest book - which traces the decline and fall of the bereft Donadieu family through 371 hard-breathing pages. By the time Author Simenon dusts his hands of them, the Donadieus have been involved in three murders, one rape, one abortion, one suicide, and a smattering of cancer, homosexuality, tuberculosis and insanity - quite apart from a daily round of business chicanery, bribery and perjury. The moral seems to be that there's so much bad in the best of us. ... Readers may feel that there is almost too much...
...trick, polio has the best chance of all diseases to be stopped. Last week the Foundation announced that its 1945 March of Dimes netted $16,589,874, a 50% increase over 1944. This represents about $860 (at last year's high case rate) for every polio case. Cancer, which kills around 170,000 persons a year, got about $4,000,000 this year in its one $5,000,000 public drive, only $23 per annual death...
...them with. Mortality in operations for removal of the prostate gland was 20% when he began. His record in 3,000 operations: 3%. He was famed for: 1) his part in developing Mercurochrome as a bloodstream disinfectant (now superseded by sulfa drugs and penicillin); 2) a radical operation for cancer of the prostate; 3) a method of removing the prostate through the urinary outlet; 4) operations which made many a pseudohermaphrodite nearly normal sexually; 5) the Young punch, an instrument to cut through bladder obstructions...