Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Crocker Institute of Cancer Research and editor of the Chemical Foundation's American Journal of Cancer* had the authority to state last week, though with scholarly ifs & ands, that treatment of cancers by x-rays or radium does not in itself stir up secondary cancers. That radiation cures a cancer in one part of the body only to metastasize or shift it into another part, has been a credible theory. Cancer of the skin often follows irradiation of the cervix. X-raying of bladder tumors is often followed by cancer...
...Cancer has now reached the point where it accounts for more deaths than any other disease, with the possible exception of heart disease," R. B. Greenough '92, professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School said in a public lecture at the School yesterday. "Within the past thirty years," he continued, "the percentage of deaths from cancer has been steadily mounting not only in this country, but all over the world. While this has been taking place the mortality rate of other diseases, like tuberculosis and diptheria, has been steadily decreasing...
Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, who was head of A. L. Erlanger Amusement Enterprises, Inc. and who controlled more legitimate theatres than anyone else in the U. S., died in Manhattan, on March 7, 1930, of uremic poisoning and cancer. With him when he died was a buxom 46-year-old woman known at various times as Charlotte Leslie, Charlotte Fixel and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger. By last week this woman was the central figure in a cause celebre. In order to secure what she believed was her rightful share in the Erlanger estate, valued in different estimates from...
...Emperor Theodosius declared the session invalid, since Nestorius had been deposed unheard. At length Emperor Theodosius gave in, and in the summer of 431 the council, satisfied that Nestorius was a rank heretic, went home. Heretic Nestorius died in misery in Egypt, "his tongue devoured by worms" (presumably cancer of the tongue); his adherents dwindled to a few thousand in Turkey and Persia. Outcome of Ephesus was an explicit statement of an old belief. Mary was, and is, the Mother of God, because she is Mother of Christ, who combines two natures, one Human, one Divine. In Ephesus that...
...which are kept in thick lead boxes; or in a solution, in bottles encased in lead. Because radium is continually breaking down, its emanations must be pumped out of the bottles every 24 hours. The gas thus pumped off is sealed in containers, used in radiotherapy for treatment of cancer. But Dr. Kaplan believes best results are obtained from pack treatment, that the best pack is made from radium element. The minimum quantity for a proper pack treatment is five grams ($350,000). Until last year there were only six grams in possession of the New York Department of Hospitals...