Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cancer specialists have been attacking the killer disease with an ever widening variety of treatments. These include traditional surgery, X rays, drugs and radioactive elements-or combinations of them. This week doctors at Brooklyn's Veterans Administration Hospital reported initial success with a new weapon in the anticancer arsenal: high-frequency radio waves. By using the waves to heat cancerous tissue, they said, they had destroyed or shrunk malignant tumors in 21 cancer patients...
Martin C, McPeth '76, a resident of Somerville, Mass. and a concentrator in Social Studies, dies of cancer Tuesday evening. He was 21 years...
Died. Jim Robinson, 86, primordial, gutsy jazz trombonist who recorded more than 100 albums, many of them with Trumpeter Bunk Johnson, starting and finishing his career on Bourbon Street; of cancer; in New Orleans...
...subscription renewals did not come in and the magazine's deficit grew like a cancer. But some people still had hope for the national edition so the business manager, rather than the national magazine was abandoned...
...term health effects of PCBs on humans are still unknown. But GE has admitted that at least 65 of its capacitor plant employees have come down with some of the same symptoms as those exhibited by the Japanese victims of Yusho. The chemicals have also been found to cause cancer in laboratory animals...