Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is hardly a science that has not felt the touch of AEC. The commission is working on new alloys and other materials for the atomic age. It is deep in cancer research. Its program of making and distributing isotopes, both radioactive and stable, has worked a genuine revolution in U.S. science...
Fear, like pain (see below), has its good points. Fear sends the patient scurrying to the doctor to find out what, if anything, is wrong with him. But fear of cancer, especially among women...
...Today, the widely publicized cancer campaigns [and] the overzealous, inexperienced routineers who man many clinics . . . who heedlessly and needlessly frighten patients, are rapidly increasing individual panic into a national stampede. Unchecked, this movement will leave in its wake a wide swath of hopelessly neurotic persons, of disabled and unnecessarily mutilated women...
Harry C. Saltzstein and Robert S. Pollack report on fear of cancer of the breast. 'There are, perhaps, few conditions which cause as much anxiety and worry to the patient as do tumors of the breast. There are deep . . . reasons which make the thought of loss of the breast terrifying to the average woman...
Recent publicity about cancer, the two doctors declare, "seems to focus on a lump in the breast." Five years ago Saltzstein and Pollack got only the more serious cases, so that they performed as many operations for cancer as for "benign" (nonmalignant) tumors. Nowadays, women with less serious ailments rush in for consultation, and the doctors are performing twice as many operations for benign tumors as for cancer. And almost half the women who rush in, the doctors find, need no surgery...