Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week mice-breeding Biologist Clarence Cook Little of Bar Harbor, Me., published in the American Medical Association Journal facts about the inheritance of cancer which mice taught him. Fundamentally, they proved that the tendency to cancer is inherited, just as are brown eyes or curly hair. Cancer can be bred out of a family by marriages into noncancerous families...
Inheritance of cancer of the breast does not follow genetic rules. Men whose mothers or maternal grandmothers had this type of cancer rarely transmit the tendency to their daughters. To daughters of women who have had cancer of the breast Dr. Little gave this advice: "Virginity delays the appearance of cancer of the breast and also actually reduces the amount of it appreciably...
...time of her appointment by Premier Blum just leaving for London last week to lecture medical savants on her most recent work in evolving synthetic radioactive drugs which, because of their light atomic weight, can be injected and tolerated by the human body while they do their cancer-killing work. Radium's great Irene then flew from London to Paris, prepared to consecrate herself to Politics...
...rays and radium rarely have an effect in retarding the chainlike spread of black cancer, Dr. Frank Earl Adair of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital has found. Surgery is the only weapon, and then only as a prophylaxis...
Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease. Since black cancers are malignant tumors and raised pigmented moles are benign tumors, pathologists call both Melanomas. What all cancer specialists know and what few laymen realize is that black moles sometimes turn suddenly into black cancers which are rarely recognized in time to save the victim's life...