Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare), who looks like a bald Irish politician, has been puttering at watercolors for 20 years, but privily. He first displayed his stuff in a Greenwich Village bar, more recently in Santa Barbara, Calif., in London and at Yale...
Observance of "cancer month," which began throughout the U.S. last week, produced a fat harvest of real cancer news. Most of it, for a change, was encouraging...
Curve Down. The latest figures showed a definite reversal of the rising curve of cancer deaths (though not of the number of cancer sufferers) among U.S. white men & women. Last year, reported the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the cancer death rate among its women policyholders dropped to a new low-78.9 per 100,000 (v. 90 per 100,000 a decade ago). In the past five years, the male death rate had also fallen slightly (from 86.8 to 85 per 100,000). Chief reasons for the reduced death rate: early diagnosis and treatment by surgery. The biggest drop...
...unburned part of a patient's body, a keloid often developed there too. Could the victims' exposure to fission products-neutrons, gamma" rays, etc.-have something to do with it? The doctors did not know for certain, but they suspected that keloids might be ugly forerunners of cancer...
...Most of the major killers-tuberculosis, kidney disease, pneumonia-are far more prevalent among Negroes. Heart disease and cancer are the killers that cause a higher percentage of deaths among whites; but the cancer rate among Negroes is rising...