Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still another way of comforting a cancer victim was suggested early this year by the late Dr. Willy Meyer of Manhattan. He applied deep X-rays to the cancer, gave the patient dilute hydrochloric acid to offset any acidosis, and made him breathe a mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen. Dr. Carl William Hoefflich of Houston, president of the Associated Anesthetists of the U. S. and Canada, tried the Meyer treatment on his mother, 82. Reported he last week: "The growth has greatly decreased in size and the pain is gone. In fact, my mother has been doing much...
...Greatest cancer discovery during the year-according to Sir George Lenthal Cheatle, British cancer expert who went to St. Louis to become an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons- was the discovery, by Dr. R. J. Lundferd of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, that a dye called trypan blue, frequently-used to treat malaria and African sleeping sickness, would stain healthy body cells, would not stain cancer cells. Trypan blue enables the pathologist to distinguish finely between healthy and cancerous tissue...
Digressing within the general topic of cancer, Sir Lenthal last week observed that life habits seem to be factors in causing certain types of cancer. The frequency of cancer in women is practically the same in Japan, England, Switzerland and Holland. England and Switzerland show large percentages of cancer of the breast and uterus, considerably more of both kinds than has The Netherlands. In Japan there is a great deal of uterine cancer, very little mammary cancer...
...Last week the New York City Cancer Committee began its autumn solicitation for funds with an illustrated booklet "Cancer: Then and Now" and an editorial in the New York Journal. Within 24 hours 80 persons with symptoms of cancer asked the committee where to get relief...
...Cancer cells behave very much like embryo tissue. One test for occult cancer is exactly the same as an early test for pregnancy...