Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most U.S. doctors agreed that it is far better to catch a case of tuberculosis or cancer early, when it is still curable, even if it means going to a doctor while you are feeling fine...
...feel fit and well, stay away from all doctors. Even in the case of cancer, nature will notify educated persons when to seek medical advice . . . Cheap mass examinations of those who have no symptoms are foolish. If a chest examination of someone who feels well shows a suggestion of something wrong, there is always a temptation to do something about it. Over 20% of the population has had some attack of tuberculosis and recovered without knowing it. If they had been X-rayed at a particular time, some small sign would have shown up and all their social contacts might...
...Russell Morgan, director of Johns Hopkins' department of radiology, were "totally contrary to the best medical thinking in this country at the present time." In the past six months, he said, X rays of the stomachs of 3,000 patients in Johns Hopkins' dispensary clinic turned up cancers in four people who had no symptoms whatever. Said Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society: if a patient waits for symptoms of cancer, "all too often" it is too late for an operation. Dr. Cameron would like to see still more mass examinations...
Research into cancer leads workers into many byways, occasionally into danger. In September, Biochemist Herbert Winegard began to study a substance called ergo-thioneine, a sulphur compound found in abnormal amounts in the urine of cancer patients; it may, chemists think, affect the growth of cancer. In order to make the compound artificially, Winegard had to work with an unstable chemical compound called diazomethane; it is a deadly, odorless yellow gas that can be inhaled without giving a warning sensation of choking. No antidote is known. On Thanksgiving Day he finished his first pilot synthesis at Philadelphia's Lankenau...
Died. Carlton K. Matson, 58, chief editorial writer of the Cleveland Press,' who, knowing that he had cancer, wrote about it to further a public attitude of frankness ("What I want to do is strike a blow against this mysterious, paralyzing hush-hush that surrounds every case of cancer"); of cancer; in Cleveland...