Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spontaneous release of atomic energy by certain heavy metals. Becquerel had some photographic plates lying in a dark drawer near a bit of uranium; he found the plates lightstruck. His researches led to the discovery of radium by Pierre and Marie Curie, and it was by using radium for cancer therapy that man first harnessed atomic energy to his own ends...
...Barthélemy, 71, ex-Vichy Minister of Justice (1941-43), official prosecutor of Daladier, Blum and Gamelin at the long-winded Riom trials, since 1942 blacklisted as a collaborator by the French underground; before the start of his own trial by the French High Court of Justice; of cancer; near Toulouse...
...sometimes looks to skeptics as if medicine is moving in a circle. It has made great strides against the germ diseases. But medicine is only fighting a delaying action against the omnipresent group of diseases roughly described as "degenerative" (disorders of the heart and blood system, cancer, diabetes, etc.). Last week New York City's Health Commissioner Eraest L. Stebbins published a bulletin which showed how mankind is making out in its war (see chart...
...Somewhere in this plot of ground there may lie the man who could have discovered the cure for cancer. Under one of these Christian crosses, or beneath a Jewish Star of David, there may rest now a man who was destined to be a great prophet. . . . Now they lie here silently in this sacred soil, and we gather to consecrate this earth to their memory...
...American Cancer Society prepared to launch its drive to raise $5,000,000 for education, research and care of advanced cancer cases, a Gallup poll revealed that one U.S. citizen in five still thinks cancer is contagious, that one in four still thinks it is incurable, that fewer than half know any of its early symptoms. The nation's second worst killer (after heart ailments), cancer will kill about 175,000 citizens this year. Ignorance of early symptoms and of how cancer can often be cured, resulting in delay of treatment, is responsible for 30% to 50% of cancer...