Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patients at fault for this fatal delay? Last week two experts admitted that in far too many cases, late diagnosis of cancer is not the patient's but the doctor's fault...
Specialists contend that most types of cancer, if caught early enough, can be cured.* The big problem is spotting cancer in time. Every year, 30,000 people in the U.S. discover that they have cancer; at least one-third discover it so late that they are doomed to die within the year...
...Cancer's Causes? Investigators are beginning to learn some basic facts about how cancer cells differ from normal ones. In cancer, normal cells suddenly turn aggressive and invade normal tissues like voracious animals. Cancer experts know that cancers can be induced by certain chemicals, by hormones, by X rays, by nuclear radiation, by metal dusts, tobacco, or even the sun's ultraviolet rays...
...congress heard some well-documented new evidence that cancers are often caused by disturbances of the body's balance of hormones-and can sometimes be stopped by hormone treatments. Most exciting new finding (reported by a Chilean group headed by Dr. Alexander Lipschutz): a slight change in the chemical composition of a cancer-causing hormone may produce a cancer-killing substance...
...Bureau's diamond counter will last longer, and it can be made much smaller than a Geiger counter. The little sensitive crystal can be tucked away in industrial equipment, or even inside the human body to measure the penetration of radiation, as in the X-ray treatment of cancer...