Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since reading about Maurice Goldblatt [TIME, Dec. 8] giving a million dollars to fight cancer and then going out to raise several more million for the same worthy cause, I am writing to nominate him as the Man of the Year...
...Valley in the Punjab, the "Silver Valley." "Whether in winter," he once wrote, "when the snowy cover sparkles, or in spring, when all the fruit trees are covered with snowy-white blossoms, the valley equally well merits this name." He had noted that its healthy people did not have cancer. There Roerich, drinking in the mysteries of Hindu and Buddhist shrines, also tried to learn what diet or beneficent rays or simple ways of life kept its people free from cancer. Amid the peaceful Himalayan pinnacles last week, at the age of 73, Nicholas Roerich's troubled life ended...
Last week the U.S. Government handed out one of the biggest single grants it has ever made for cancer research. To help rebuild Dr. Clarence Cook Little's fire-destroyed Jackson Memorial Cancer Laboratory in Bar Harbor (TIME, Nov. 3), the Government's National Cancer Institute gave Dr. Little $250,000-on condition that its gift is matched by private contributions...
Doctors do not know exactly how it works. Some hope that Teropterin is the kind of material that researchers have long sought as the most likely means of fighting cancer: a substance so similar to a cancer cell's favorite food that the cell devours it, but so devoid of nourishment that the cell starves. Dr. Lehv & colleagues are drawing no sweeping conclusions as to how effective Teropterin is against cancer; but none of the doctors doubts its effectiveness as a pain-reliever...
...developing the drug, and has recently begun to distribute it to hospitals for clinical tests. It is much too soon to get excited about Teropterin as a "cure," Dr. Lehv cautioned. The Harlem Hospital group has used the new drug only three months, found that some types of cancer seemed to respond better than others. But researchers who know about Teropterin's performance thus far think that the drug promises at least one great gain in the anti-cancer war: it seems likely to relieve the pain and suffering of cancer's late stages, without the depressing effects...