Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chronic irritation always seems to be the immediate cause of cancer whether the victim is genetically vulnerable or not. The irritation may be mechanical (ill-fitting dentures), physical (pipe smokers' lips), chemical (tar roofers' hands), digestive (caused by bile acids), endocrine (caused by sex hormones). Said Dr. James Bumgardner Murphy of Manhattan...
Most authentic view of cancer is that it is not inheritable. But the susceptibility to cancer may be inherited. Dr. Maud Slye of Chicago, who was in Europe last week, says that the female offspring of mice which have cancer of the breast will also develop cancer of the breast (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week at Madison Dr. Madge Thurlow Macklin of London, Ont. declared that this inherited organ susceptibility applied to human beings too. Said Dr. Macklin, 43, plump, vivacious mother of three daughters, and the only woman taking part in the cancer symposium: "We find that the members...
Aware of the despair which her words might cause, Dr. Macklin added: "The belief that cancer is inherited need not be a gloomy one. We can hardly make the picture darker than it is when we tell the public that one of every seven or eight adults will die of cancer. No one person can pay a doctor for a complete examination as to the possibilities of his having all the varieties of cancer that there are. But he can be examined for the more common kinds, and for the type someone else in his family has had. Thus...
...Clinicians are familiar with malignant changes taking place in lesions produced by germs, particularly syphilitic lesions in the mouth and in tuberculosis of the skin. In the Rockefeller Institute Laboratory we have seen the production of cancer of the stomach following experimental infection by a nematode, that is, a kind of worm, and malignant changes in the liver associated with tapeworm cysts...
Diagnosis of a full-blown cancer is easy. Diagnosis of an early, curable one may be difficult. It depends upon study of a sample of tissue cut from a living tumor under suspicion. Said Pundit Ewing: "Accurate tumor diagnosis requires a life-long experience and a special training. Not every diagnostic laboratory is equipped to give this service. The State of New York requires a difficult practical examination of all pathologists who undertake to diagnose cancer and wish to be eligible for appointment in any of the many laboratories controlled by the State. It would be well if other states...