Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composing music up to the very day of his death. . . . Fred Fisher could turn out hits as easily as he could brush his teeth. It was five operations and three years of cancer that turned my father inward to the decision that led him to end his suffering...
...over, Dr. Salsbury says, they make wonderful patients. They rarely show irritation and are stoical about pain. They also seem to be impervious to many of the white man's diseases: Dr. Salsbury has never found a case of scarlet fever among the Navajos. Also rare: diabetes, breast cancer, baldness...
...altitude of 15,000 feet and gave them methylene blue capsules. Result: no one became ill of soroche. The doctor, announcing her successful experiment last week, thought that methylene blue might also be a big help to high-altitude flyers. ¶Announced: two promising new treatments for cancer of the prostate, which kills some 22,000 Americans annually. Yale's Dr. Clyde L. Deming reported that massive doses of the female hormone estrogen (instead of the small doses previously used) help four cases out of five and often prolong life. At the University of Chicago, three researchers found that...
...pain-killer called metopon hydrochloride is now available to doctors for relieving cancer patients (its use for any other purpose is forbidden). The National Research Council has found the drug a considerable improvement over morphine: it is twice as effective as a painkiller, is less likely to produce addiction, does not stupefy...
Died. Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo, 69, who rose to be senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi on a platform of belligerent bigotry; of "progressive heart failure," cancer and other complications; in New Orleans (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...