Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Encouraging gains in the nation-wide battle against cancer were reported by a University pathologist and the director of the National Cancer Institute in a meeting at the Medical School yesterday afternoon which opened an entire week of conferences...
More international cooperation has been achieved in cancer research than in any other sphere, political or otherwise, observed Shields, citing the international conferences at St. Louis this September...
Result: the hungry mice, though smaller than the well-fed mice, were more active, hardier, developed less cancer, generally lived much longer. (None of the well-fed mice lived over a year and a half; some of the underfed lived well over two years...
...Cancer and embryonic tissues are the only ones that can be successfully transplanted from man to other animals. Does that mean that they are one & the same? Dr. Greene suspects that they may be; the only difference between cancerous and embryonic tissue that he has discovered is that embryonic tissue grows up and "differentiates," i.e., acquires a special function. It is possible, he suggests, that cancer is merely arrested embryonic tissue...
...Greene is right, a cure for cancer may depend on finding the unknown factor that arrests the development of embryonic cells. To prove that there is only a thin dividing line between embryonic tissue and cancer, he treated embryonic tissue with cancer-inducing chemicals and implanted the treated tissue in animals. Result: the animals developed cancers in record time...