Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Giblin, wife of a Manhattan broker and a two-day-a-week volunteer worker at Memorial Cancer Center for the last eight months, had worked out a stock and true answer for patients who tell her: "You know, you look just like Constance Talmadge, the silent movie star." Mrs. Giblin's answer: "That's good, because...
...Harvard School of Dental Medicine, unique in its field for its combination medical and dental training, yesterday received a grant of $5,000 for an extensive study of mouth cancer...
This grant, approved by the United States Public Health Service was part of a $689,685 award to medical and dental students throughout the country for cancer study. The agency explained the grant by saying that the knowledge of 8,994 students in 32 medical schools regarding cancer has shown a wide disparity...
...causes of cancer, many scientists still accept "rather sterile concepts," Dr. Hueper said. Among them he listed the theories that cancer gets started by chronic irritation and that it is the product of heredity. Both, he said, are supported by evidence of "doubtful value," and both may cause researchers to ignore a wide field of potentially valuable research in preventing the disease. Dr. Hueper's main point: almost every known cancer-producing agent can be traced to environment, particularly certain processes of modern industries...
...best way to prevent cancer, Hueper believes, is to cut out, or at least cut down, the conditions of contact; better yet, use harmless materials instead of those with cancer-producing properties. Some industries have already made a beginning, he noted, but the process could be stepped up by spreading the word on environmental causes of cancer through industrial management and "health agencies, including the medical profession...