Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Eunice Tietjens, 60, poetess, longtime associate editor of Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; of cancer; in Chicago. A member of Chicago's Hammond -piano -manufacturing family, genteel, bespectacled Miss Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, wrote vers libre in the school and era of the late Amy Lowell...
...Henri Matisse, now 74 and suffering from cancer, was at Grasse. His recent works were bold, bright studies of young girls...
...sperm in glass, planted the resulting cells in a female rabbit's uterus and she bore normal, healthy bunnies.* Other investigators have nursed a monkey's egg, fertilized in its mother's body, to the eight-cell stage in glass. Six years ago Philadelphia's Cancer Specialist Stanley Philip Reimann, by pricking a human ovum with a glass needle, succeeded in stimulating it to an apparent beginning of growth...
...Riveting does not cause breast cancer. "In a woman riveter [the disease] is purely coincidental...
Pursuing the cause of cancer, Drs. S. Lieberman, B. R. Hill, and L. F. Fieser, together with Dr. Konrad Dohriner and Col. R. P. Rhoads of Memorial Hospital, have gathered new evidence that cancer and leukemia are caused by endocrine disturbances, particularly in the adrenal gland. It is probable that glands in the cancer and leukemia patients secrete cancer-causing chemicals. A possible cure was recently reported by Dr. James B. Murphy, who stated that transplanted leukemia can be prevented from developing by injections of adrenal cortical hormones...