Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Brown McKinley, 70, Senator from Illinois; at the Homelawn Sanitarium, Martinsville, Ind., of prostatic cancer. Millionaire businessman of Illinois; 14 years Congressman; Manager of President Taft's unsuccessful 1912 campaign; elected Senator in 1921; he was defeated last spring by Senator-elect Smith. Few knew that for 30 years he was loyal to a wife whom he rarely...
...knows very little of Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen; at 59 an authority on tuberculosis and cancer, 1924 Jung Prizer for cancer. Son and son-in-law of doctors, he passed his medical examinations in 1890 and the next year conducted a large research laboratory at Sygehus Garrison, Denmark...
...went to Washington for the first international tuberculosis conference held in the U. S. (The second took place last month; TIME, Oct. 18.) Since then he has been whipping his mind to and fro in an effort to find some cause for cancer. Once he thought that this disease was caused by a germ because he found the same germ in cockroaches and cancerous rats that ambled about a Copenhagen sugar refinery. He has modified his views since then...
...studies on cancer especially, for his pathological work in general, Dr. Fibiger was reported, last week, to be the 1926 Nobel Prizer in medicine. That would carry $40,000 in addition to the fame...
What therapeutic significance attaches to cathode rays was to be suggested shortly by a preliminary report of doctors at the Albany Medical College, now experimenting. Experts at Columbia University reported having tried cathode rays in cancer treatment and found them practically useless...