Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minnesota's Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson fell ill last year, was taken to the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., where he underwent an "exploratory" operation. Although his illness was never specified, most Minnesotans were sure it was cancer of the stomach. By last April he was sufficiently better to file as candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Farmer-Labor ticket. Three weeks ago he was allowed to go to his summer home at Gull Lake, with a tube inserted in his intestines through which he took food. Last week, suddenly taking a turn for the worse...
...Cancer is not inherited but susceptibility to it is. This theory, today almost universally accepted as fact, was announced to a mightily impressed medical world in 1912. Last week the woman who announced it, now grey-haired and granite-faced, left Chicago for her first vacation in 26 years...
Indefatigable Professor Maud Slye, pathologist of the University of Chicago, will use her "vacation" to address the International Congress for the Control of Cancer which meets in Brussels next month. Also at Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, perhaps Copenhagen, she will give the case histories of 5.000 cancerous and noncancerous mice, renew her old plea that complete medical records be kept for human cancer as she has kept them for her army of rodents...
...walk through her Midway laboratory (she lives across the street from it), glance at the case histories of 9,000 mice, tell what kind of cancer, if any, each will develop. She can tell 98 times out of a hundred how soon the disease will appear and in what part of the body...
...pumpkin, standing beside a piece of apparatus that looked like stovepipe put together with baling wire (see cut). Said Dr. Fermi: "The most obvious application of artificial radioactivity which can be foreseen is in the medicinal field. Radium, naturally radioactive, is used for the treatment of cancer. The completely new radioactive substances created in the laboratory should give medical men new tools, some of which may prove more efficient than radium...