Word: cancered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cancer fighters long ago reconciled themselves to a long war of attrition. They do not hope to find a miracle cure, but they do expect their present slow progress to continue. In Atlantic City last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, one scientist cracked: "The progress of cancer research depends on how fast mice reproduce." (Usual breeding rate: one litter every 20 days...
...women & children who will die this year from cancer, the 250 scientists at the meeting had no definitely cheery news. After listening to the advice of the Association's retiring president-"Be cautious with your data"-they cautiously reported some mouse-paced progress, measurable in millimeters...
Zymohexase. A new way of detecting cancer in laboratory animals was reported by Drs. John A. Sibley and Albert L. Lehninger of the University of Chicago. They found that whenever an active tumor is present, the blood contains an abnormally large amount of an enzyme called zymohexase; when the tumor is removed, the amount of zymohexase returns to normal. Some day, they thought, the test might be valuable for detecting human cancer...
...University of Maryland. He set out to find a way of carrying radioactive isotopes directly to a tumor without damaging the rest of the body on the way. Experimenting with porphyrins, which are fluorescent substances found in the body in minute amounts, he found that they went directly to cancer tissue. Since they stay on its outer limit and since they glow under ultraviolet light, they neatly outline the tumor. The porphyrins could, Dr. Figge found, carry zinc on their journey; that indicated that they might also carry isotopes.* One drawback to porphyrins as isotope carriers: they also have...
Opening night has already approached SRO status with block sales to the Boston Copley Club and to the Cancer Club. Seats for later performances are headed for various veterans' organizations, and public sale will begin next week...