Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor comparable to President Roosevelt, and declared of the F. L. A. W.: "I think the formation of this organization is one of the most significant events that has happened in a long time with respect to all countries from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer...
...cracked last week: "If you could get together all those people who think they are Supermen and who really are not, it is my firm belief that they could work out a plan for peace. Peace can be planned in just the same way as an attack against cancer. My main proposal is that there should be a World Peace Conference...
...bathing they are of one mind. Contrary to nudists' beliefs, prolonged exposure to sunlight is definitely harmful. Sunburn is a form of skin disease, stretching and often paralyzing the superficial capillaries of the skin, increasing fibrous tissue. In time the skin grows scaly, inelastic, wrinkled, becomes predisposed to cancer. Classic medical example of sun-caused cancer is the case of Australian sheepherders, who work unprotected in strong sunlight, contract more skin cancer than any other group...
During the last ten years the number of clinics and hospitals specially built to fight cancer has increased from 13 to over 200. In its advanced stages the disease is still incurable, but now a few experiments of kitchen-simplicity lend hope to sufferers...
...Yale University's Medical School, two years ago, Biologist Leonell Clarence Strong fed oil of wintergreen to laboratory mice with cancerous tumors of the breast. Some of the tumors melted away. The thing that did the trick was the active principle of wintergreen oil, heptyl aldehyde, a fragrant, colorless liquid. With the help of his colleague, Leon Fradley Whitney, Dr. Strong then set to work on dogs. In last week's Science the biologists revealed the following promising results: injection of small amounts of fresh heptyl aldehyde under the skin of ten dogs with various types of spontaneous...