Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, witty Dr. John C. A, Gerster, cancer specialist, advised women leaders of a drive for cancer hospital funds to solicit their bootleggers. Said he: ". . . Since they don't pay much in Government taxes maybe these congenial, piratical individuals can be persuaded to contribute to a public cause in this way." Dr. Gerster revealed that he "knew a man who knew Capone" but could hardly solicit him because his friend was "already tied up with Johns Hopkins...
Upshot of the surgeon-journalist conference on cancer was that the surgeons would find a writer who knows medicine or (more difficult) a doctor who knows journalism to bombard the public with cancer warnings...
...Cancer. In treatment of cancer the new contributions offered were refinements in diagnosis and treatment. Dr. George Washington Crile, for instance, reported that cancer tissue conducts electricity more easily than normal tissue, that here was a method of differential diagnosis. Dr. Donald Church Balfour urged more operations for cancer of the stomach and of the intestines. These cases are among the hardest to save. But Dr. Balfour finds that nine out of ten patients can sur- vive the operation. If lymph nodes are not involved, five out of ten live for five years or more...
...electrical knife perfected by Dr. George Austin Wyeth of Manhattan received great tribute as a cancer tool. It reams out tiny holes wherein the cut of a scalpel would be brutal...
Again the surgeons insisted that there is no evidence that cancer is caused by a germ. They reapproved Dr. James Swing's suggestion of several great cancer research institutions spotted over the U. S. (TIME...