Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, 64, New York City's fiery "Little Flower"; of cancer; in The Bronx...
...York. He went to Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital for an operation in June, hoping to hear that he could soon go on breaking lances against the enormous villains with whom his frenetic world was peopled. Instead, he heard his death sentence-he was suffering from cancer of the pancreas...
...John E. Leach and Guy F. Robbins of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital questioned some 50 cancer patients. They found that 28%, when they first went to a doctor, had not had their ailment diagnosed correctly. The investigators were shocked to learn, furthermore, that half of the women patients with breast tumors were advised by their doctors to ignore the tumor "if it doesn't bother...
Thanks to anti-cancer propaganda, the public is becoming aware of the importance of prompt examination (the proportion of cancer patients who now delay going to a doctor-32%-is much smaller than surveys showed nine years ago). But doctors seem to be even less alert. The Memorial Hospital experts conclude: "The patient is seeking help earlier but the physician does not appear to be taking advantage of the opportunity...
Their recommendations: doctors should take any possible cancer symptoms seriously; a general practitioner who has any suspicion of possible cancer should lose no time in referring the patient to an expert. "The treatment of cancer is as much an emergency as a fracture, and much more important to the patient's life...