Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cancer is a supplement to Neoplastic Diseases. It contains four sections: Cancer in its General Relations, Cancer Research, Regional Cancer, Radium and Roentgen Ray Therapy of Cancer...
Contributors to Cancer include...
...Cause of Cancer. Sir George Lenthal Cheatle (Kings College Hospital, London) says in Cancer: "Turning to this question of the genesis of carcinoma [one of the several ways Cancer manifests itself] it is one in which I have a completely open, not to say vacant, mind." Nor does any one else know for certain what causes Cancer...
...localized" school thinks that, since Cancer always appears in connection with prolonged irritation (bruises, unhealed wounds, sores, chemicals, heat, burns) it is the irritation which is the important cause of the Cancer. The mechanism is supposed to be this: the irritation kills certain body cells; new cells replace the dead ones; the irritation kills the new ones, and continues to kill succeeding new crops; eventually the body becomes vexed, as it were, and rushes the production of new cells; those hastily created cells grow so fast that they get beyond control of that mechanism in the body which regulates growth...
...Along comes an irritation which disables one of its parts, say the breast. The body hastily drafts its defense forces. Like Falstaff's paltry men, they are unhealthy, poorly armed. They scurry to the site of the injury, stumble hither and thither, heedless of leadership, out of control - Cancer...