Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of generations of experience and all the thousands of case histories, cancer research has advanced at a turtle's pace. Doctors acknowledge the basic truisms that cancer is cell growth gone wild, that cases discovered early can sometimes be cured through X ray, surgery, radioactive substances. But beyond that, chains of ignorance still bind their hands...
This week at the University of Minnesota, two top-level professors-Dr. Robert G. Green, expert in bacteriology and immunology, and Dr. John J. Bittner, geneticist and cancer biologist-nailed up an important signpost in medicine's fight against cancer. They reported that they had discovered: 1) a filterable virus which definitely causes breast cancer in mice; 2) an anti-cancer serum which kills the mouse cancer cells, in test tubes...
Freedom of the press was the clearest example. Liberal-Catholic MRP committeemen wanted a "guarantee" that it would not be tampered with, considered a slight case of press control as dangerous as a slight case of cancer. Communists and Socialists feared a return to France's prewar corrupt press standards, which reached the reeking point in the '30s when Le Matin and other papers sold out to the Germans. The Communist Humanité tiraded against allowing the press to be controlled by the wealthy, warned that "trusts" must not "dominate public opinion contrary to real freedom...
...Carbon-13, a rare-as-radium substance that can now be produced in quantities, may shed new light on the mysteries of human metabolism. It may also provide clues to the cause & cure of cancer, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, other metabolic diseases. It is like ordinary carbon but has a greater atomic weight. Absorbed into the system, C13 can be easily identified by its added weight, and precisely traced-with an electrical instrument-through the entire process of metabolism. Doctors may thus learn how food and drugs behave when they meet disease germs, or cancer, inside the body...
...father's shop), a mail sorter, a Western Union messenger, a speakeasy operator. In Paris, where he settled in 1930 "to study vice," he worked at panhandling and slept on park benches. He also wrote his best work, a swatch of unabashed autobiographical writings (Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn and others), and several volumes of second-rate philosophy with first-rate titles (What Are You Going to Do About Alf? ; Money and How It Gets that Way; Max and the White Phagocytes...