Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aging surgeon's pugnacious ambition overrode the scores of operations and scientific lectures of the American College of Surgeons meeting in San Francisco last week. Before he dies, Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey, 67, insists on nailing his name to the wall of medical fame as a conqueror of cancer...
...Coffey & Humber gave crude extracts of adrenal cortex to victims of cancer. Many of them at once declared that they felt better. A very few recovered from what may or may not have been cancer ulcers...
That was enough for Dr. Coffey. Being impatient with the slowness of orthodox doctors in double-checking new remedies, he let newspapers know that he felt pretty certain that he had a remedy for cancer. California's Senator Hiram Johnson helped matters by letting Dr. Coffey expound his ideas about the cortical extract which abated cancer before a Senate Committee...
...when Chief Surgeon Coffey of Southern Pacific stormed Manhattan in his private car, the New York Academy of Medicine scorned his remedy, made him give up a $1,000,000 gift, and told him to keep quiet until he produced patients who remained cured of cancer for at least five years after taking his stuff (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930 et seq.). Black with fury, Dr. Coffey returned to his native San Francisco to bide his time for five-year cures of cancer. Last week came his first opportunity to talk to a national medical body. To several hundred fellows...
...patients with supra-corcin, our extract of the adrenal cortex. Of these, 3,872 died before they could receive the minimum amount of treatment needed for more than relief from pain. We selected 1,040 of the others because there was no doubt that they had hopeless, inoperable cancer. Five years after treatment 53 or 5% of these 1,040 are entirely free from any sign of cancer. In another 55 cases the growths have become inactive...