Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rheumatic heart disease, which smolders in slum districts and overcrowded tenements does not get a fraction of the publicity given to cancer or tuberculosis...
Cyclotron for Cancer. Winner of the Society's gold medal was Dr. John Hundale Lawrence of Berkeley, Calif., brother of Nobelman Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who splits atoms with a giant cyclotron. Brother John said last week that cyclotron bombardment can give any element the emanating qualities of radium. These radioactive elements, when swallowed in liquid form, have two great uses for medicine: 1) in minuscule amounts, they settle in specific organs for a brief time, then can be traced in their journey through the body, providing a clue to the process of growth and repair; 2) in larger doses...
...body's elements, about 22 have been made radioactive. So far only three are now in actual clinical use for cancer treatment. The three...
...Phosphorous, which settles in the bone marrow and spleen, is used for the cancer-like blood disease, leukemia...
...Iodine, which lodges in the thyroid, eats away cancer tissue without disturbing the tiny parathyroid glands which lie underneath. In fact, said Dr. Lawrence, the entire gland can be removed "blood-lessly...