Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under a year. Now, with half-a-dozen palliative but no curative drugs available, the average survival time is about five years in major medical centers, and a handful of patients have held on for ten years or longer. The harsh fact remains, however, that a diagnosis of leukemia-cancer of the blood-is still an almost certain sentence of death, no matter how long deferred...
...professor of plant pathology at Pennsylvania State University from 1917 to 1940, who, for his successful efforts in encouraging farmers to grow potatoes in the hard Pennsylvania soil, was known variously as "the Potato Wizard of Pennsylvania," the "Knute Rockne of Spudland" and the "Billy Sunday of Potatodom"; of cancer; in Bellefonte...
Since then, Dr. HIPpocrates has become the best-read feature in the paper. Schoenfeld knew what his readers wanted-straight talk instead of "straight" lectures. To a questioner worried whether spray deodorants cause cancer of the armpits, he suggests daily bathing instead. To girls fearful of pelvic examinations, he carefully explains them. To a youth ashamed of his small genitalia, he reports that some women "would rather be tickled than choked...
Unrecognized Intentions. Haldane died of cancer (at 72) in 1964. In an effort to check the disease, he underwent a colostomy, an event he commemorated with a poem...
...know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills...