Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Elissa Landi, 43, novel-writing stage & screen actress (Count of Monte Cristo, Sign of the Cross), reputedly the granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth; of cancer; in Kingston...
Died. Warren William (Krech), 53, stage & screen actor; of cancer of the bone marrow; in Los Angeles. An immediate success in the early talkies, he specialized at playing sophisticated villains and cultured detectives...
...discovery may lead to a better understanding of a number of diseases in which fat is not burned normally: jaundice, hardening of the arteries, a liver disease called infectious hepatitis. There is also tentative evidence that cancer cells use fat abnormally...
...Government's parade of witnesses gave some shocking testimony. They had, they said, followed Dr. Koch's instructions in treating cancer patients: first a "detoxicating regime" of enemas and a diet of fresh apple and vegetable juices, then injections of glyoxylide. Koch insisted that no other drugs be used except "the smallest amount of morphine by mouth only." Many of the victims might have died anyway, but his instructions denied them even enough morphine to ease their pain. An osteopath told of trying the Koch treatment on five cancer patients (including his wife); all died. Last fortnight...
According to these statistics, the most long-lived specialists are pathologists. Shortest (at nine-tenths of the general practitioners' rate): dermatologists, who have a high death rate from cancer and leukemia, possibly the result of continual exposure to X rays. Specialists in tuberculosis also have a bad rate, probably because they often start off with the disease...