Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such examples are amusing. Use of the mails for medical quackery, according to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, is at an alltime high. Millions fall for quackery because their own physicians' advice is undramatic, especially in fields such as cancer, where the physician cannot guarantee a cure. An estimated $500 million annually is spent by a duped public on misrepresented drugs or remedies sold door to door...
Atop his other troubles, McElroy lost the services of two men whose expert knowledge has been great help. Lung cancer temporarily sidelined Joint Chiefs Chairman Nathan F. Twining, now convalescing from surgery. Shortly afterward, experienced, science-trained Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles died of a heart attack...
Last February Neuberger returned to the Senate after a gallant, five-month struggle with cancer (TIME, Feb. 16). True to the unpredictable Morse code, Neuberger's friend-turned-enemy offered "a very warm welcome and assurance of our sincere pleasure over the fact that my colleague has returned...
...even down into the coralline depths of the Pacific, legmen for U.S. medicine were busy last week in a single-minded search. The objective: folk remedies, plants, lichens or marine slimes that might, through modern chemical analysis, yield useful drugs for treating man's ills, from toothache to cancer...
...University of Texas' Austin campus: "In plants we have more compounds than the chemists could synthesize in 1,000 years. And as a rule, the naturally occurring compounds are less likely to be poisonous than the synthetic, because they've developed in association with life." Cancer Researcher Taylor's team is testing plant extracts against cancer in mice, reports "more hopeful results with the natural compounds than with synthetics...