Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mice for experimentation," Dr. Little went on, "because in one year they reach the cancer peak equivalent to that of a 40-year-old human. It takes a rabbit six years, and a horse 15 to reach the same stage in their development...
...have been raising mice for experimentation since my Sophomore year in Harvard. Having started with some 15 or 20, I now have more than 30,000 of them at Bar Harbor, and, as they are all from the same pure stock, much more accurate prognostications can be made concerning cancer than was formerly the case...
...shame," he continued, "that it is so hard to get money for the study of cancer. Infantile paralysis kills less than 10,000 people annually, and yet, with the aid of such affairs as President's Birthday Balls, they get 20 times as much money as we do. If we had as good an organization as the Tuberculosis Association's we would be able to accomplish undreamed of results...
...early," stages," Dr. Little continued, "there is absolutely no pain connected with cancer. It is merely the rapid growth of certain tissues far in excess of the surrounding ones. The thing to watch out for is the sudden enlarging or change in consistency of a mole or lump under the skin that one may have had since childhood. When this happens, competent medical examination should be made to determine whether cancerous tissue is involved in the change...
...Dark complexioned people are much more susceptible to cancer than those who have light pigmented skins," he said, although just what the reason for this is, the former president of Maine...