Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authors were the 54 foremost cancer combatants, the world's leading specialists in cancer pathology, biology, surgery, X-ray therapy, radium therapy. They wrote in tribute to a great teacher, Professor James Ewing of Cornell Medical School, Manhattan, the man who spent ten years writing Neoplastic Diseases, prime textbook on Cancer. What the 54 authorities wrote comprises a compendium of all current knowledge of Cancer, its causes, treatment, prevention. Because Professor Ewing has always taught that the specialists must depend on the family doctor to discover early signs of cancer, this issue of the Annals of Surgery will...
Journal. Last week, too, appeared the first issue of The American Journal of Cancer, a thick quarterly which supersedes The Journal of Cancer Research begun in 1916 by the American Association for Cancer Research. Continuing editor is Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research. The Chemical Foundation supplied the money for the new publication. Its purpose is reporting current work on the cancer problem-its research, clinical, educational and public health aspects. One-third of each issue will contain abstracts of reports published in U. S. and foreign journals...
Cinema. Also last week, 60 surgical pathologists assembled at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for a postgraduate course on Cancer. Professor Joseph Colt Bloodgood taught them how to distinguish cancer growths by showing them representative specimens from among his 45,000 microscopic slides. Only a few were allowed to see the first moving pictures taken of cancer cells growing under glass. Cell growers and picture-takers were Mr. & Mrs. George Otto Gey of Pittsburgh, working at Johns Hopkins' Garvan Cancer Research Laboratory, which the Chemical Foundation and Mr. & Mrs. Francis Patrick Garvan finance...
Conference. First formal presentation of the Johns Hopkins cancer film was to be this week at the National Institute of Health, Washington, before a Cancer conference summoned by Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service...
...this intent the U. S. has its American Society for the Control of Cancer (founded 1913). The League of Nations has a Cancer Commission under its Health Organization. Great Britain has a Cancer Committee of its Ministry of Health. The British Empire has a Cancer Campaign. There are an Association Française pour I'Etude du Cancer, a Komite fur Krebs-forschung, and similar bodies in Japan, Belgium, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland. Besides teaching public and profession to recognize Cancer, these organizations also promote Cancer research...