Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cancer of the lung was formerly considered rare, but in the last 20 years it has increased steadily, not only in the U. S., but in Canada, England, Germany. Before he died last June, Dr. Philip B. Matz, U. S. Veterans' Administration research chief, examined 138 clinical and post-mortem records from the veterans' hospitals to find out where lung cancer came from and how long it was going to be here...
...Cancer of the stomach. Dr. Schindler pointed out, comprises 30 to 40% of all cancers in the U. S., kills more people than any other type. But thousands of deaths can be prevented if all patients suffering from "stomach trouble" are given routine gastroscopic examinations. Although the flexible gastroscope is an aid to the X-ray rather than a substitute for it, it enables a properly-trained physician to discover tiny ulcers and tumors which have just begun to grow and cannot be detected by Xray. The gastroscope has also demonstrated the frequency of chronic inflammation of the stomach...
...When cancer and syphilis were under a general radio muffler, he aired lecture series on both. Last summer station KFI (Los Angeles), also Holliway-managed, lectured parents on their duties, illustrated the need for parental understanding by broadcasting the dramatized story of a 15-year-old girl with an advanced case of gonorrhea...
Last year Surgeon General Thomas Parran granted Ernest Orlando Lawrence $30,000 to use in cancer experiments. Last week Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, director of the National Advisory Cancer Council, announced that a group of cancer patients, drawn from a special list in the University of California's San Francisco teaching hospital, have been placed under the cyclotron for treatment. Wary of raising false hopes, Dr. Hektoen warned that "these treatments are purely experimental...
...peerage for ''merging" the Lloyd George "Win the War" Cabinet in 1917, was made Minister of Information (propaganda) a year later, and in 1922 shoved his friend Andrew Bonar Law into the Prime Ministry. This was a shortlived triumph with a painful ending. Bonar Law died of cancer of the throat a year later. His last words for his little friend "Max" were: "You're a curious fellow...