Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medical School has been announced. The lectures, for which no tickets are required, are to be given at four o'clock on Sunday afternoons, beginning January 3. The lectures are as follows: January 3, "Modern Conceptions of the Brain at Work" by Dr. Philip Bard; January 10, "Cancer" by Dr. R. B. Greenough '92; January 17, "Dietary Habits in Relation to Indigestion" by Dr. C. M. Jones; "The Role of Water in the Body" by Dr. M. I. Gregerson; January 31, "Pneumonia" by Dr. H. L. Blumgart '17; February 7, "The 'Glands' of internal Secretion" by Dr. R. G. Haskins...
Kolyumist Kitchen presented his story as fact. It was, however, invented and told (without euphemisms) at the last meeting of the American Society for the Control of Cancer by a waggish Manhattan surgeon...
...cell knowledge comes new knowledge of the nature of human beings, who are just cells multiplied and grown up. Last spring Dr. Francis Ferdinand Lucas, microscopist of Bell Telephone Laboratories, perfected an ultraviolet ray microscope capable of showing living cells in action. He set it to work photographing brain, cancer and sperm cells (TIME, March 2). Last week was tested a device to extract new cell secrets...
...Cancer. The pituitary gland's power to balance body growth suggested to Dr. William Susman of the University of Manchester that its extract might be useful against cancer. Dr. Susman, pathologist, had noticed during the autopsies of some 200 cancer victims that their pituitaries and pancreases were generally and suspiciously abnormal. The ill-conditioned pancreases suggested that the patient had been eating a great amount of carbohydrates, like sugar and bread. Dr. Susman verified this suspicion by irritating the skin of mice until cancers developed. Bread-fed mice showed cancers much more frequently than oat-&-cheese fed mice...
...Cure of malignant disease in patients with advanced carcinoma or sarcoma (cancer), in view of the experience of the patients of this series, cannot reasonably be expected to occur as a result of the use of the suprarenal cortex extract...