Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some doctors believe .that, of all the weapons against cancer now being forged, the most promising is atomic energy. A top-rank U.S. cancer specialist, Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, summed up the reasons why, in a report to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission...
Experts agree that the best hope of a cancer cure rests on finding a medicinal substance to seek out and destroy cancer cells without harming normal body cells. All known drugs fail. But radioactive isotopes of elements normally used by the body have recently been found to be effective against two diseases helpful in studying cancer. The diseases: 1) hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid gland); 2) polycythemia (overactivity of tissues which manufacture red blood cells...
...From a cancer researcher's standpoint, the thyroid gland is an ideal organ to work on: it is easily reached with a test material-iodine-since it takes up nearly all the iodine fed to the body. It is also sensitive to atomic radiation. Researchers have found that radioactive iodine inhibits overactive thyroids; carefully measured amounts of it usually cure hyperthyroidism...
Future of Cancer Research (Mon. 10:15 p.m., ABC). Discussion by Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, medical director, New York's Memorial Hospital; Colonel Baldwin Lucke, from the Army Medical Museum; and Dr. Paul A. Weiss, University of Chicago...
...reason why we people of the North are so vitally-and at times vociferously-interested in Southern elections is because we are a part of the United States, and we realize that a cancer anywhere in the country affects the health of the entire nation...