Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dying of cancer in her sixties in a Pacific coast boom town, with loutish roomers clumping overhead and with no love left for her patient, tender, ineffectual husband, Myra was bitter over her self-defeat, until the end. Passion had made her a lowly bed; she had writhed on it for years. She still could laugh at some of life's absurdities. Some of its beauty was still warm to her-Heine's poems, her own lovely hands. But her steely pride was turned upon itself, 'her mortal enemy. Not even religion could resign...
Xray. "The centre of the stage in all questions concerning the treatment of cancer is occupied by the still unsolved problem of the action of X-rays on normal and malignant the cells. Until this problem has been cleared up from the theoretical point of view I believe that the practical work of treating cancers by X-rays cannot be improved."-Robert Bierich of Hamburg...
Education. "For the control of cancer it is necessary to educate men and women to the importance of seeking advice for nodules, birth marks, warts, moles and chronic ulcers. The significance of such defects is known to well-trained surgeons and their removal is as a rule, simple and safe."-Sir John Bland-Sutton of London...
After the five days of the symposium, Dr. Soper made an abstract of the information presented there: 1) for practical purposes, cancer is not contagious; 2) cancer itself is not hereditary; 3) surgery, radium and X-rays are the only justifiable forms of treatment for cancer; and 4) cure depends upon treatment in the earliest stages...
...conferees cabled greetings to the scientific congress at Düsseldorf (see p. 20) : "Through research and education the scourge of cancer will yet be controlled." Then they traveled to Manhattan for a farewell dinner of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, where Banker Thomas W. Lament presided...