Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the past eight years, by exhaustive trial & error, the National Cancer Institute and its associates have identified a few pieces which may some day fit into a complete picture...
...There is no single cause for cancer...
...disease has been produced by ultraviolet rays-indicating that cancer of the skin may be caused by overexposure to the sunlight...
...tackle Rocky Mountain spotted fever, developed a vaccine which won him a gold medal from the American Medical Association, public renown as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel, Green Light. Now he is elbow-deep in another (and even more important) experiment: as director of the National Cancer Institute, he heads a staff of 120 seeking the cause-and eventually cure-of cancer...
Life & Death. Suggestive as it is of death (it is second only to heart troubles as top U.S. killer), cancer is in fact life run wild: a multiplication of cells, but in abnormal pattern. The riddle of the disease will not be solved until the secrets of the rebel cells which ravage human tissue are revealed. Meanwhile, the answer must be sought through research in the basic sciences of chemistry, biology and physics...