Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have recently sent two subscriptions to TIME as Christmas presents, but if you continue to print long and detailed descriptions of diseases, such as your article on cancer in TIME, Feb. 1, (MEDICINE), I shall cancel subscriptions to your paper. Such matter can be found in medical works for those who desire it, but it is most unwholesome for family consumption and discussion...
...Recently the wife of Stephen Butler Leacock, Canadian political economist and wit, died of cancer. Now he is devoting his wealth and writing ability to research and prevention of that disease (see TIME...
...obtained. . . . Of the 50 [improved] cases, one has gone five years without a return of the disease, others from two to three; but most of the patients are too recent to enable a definite opinion. . . . Unfortunately it is quite impossible at present to determine the type of cancer which will be favorably influenced, so that no guarantee of improvement can be offered to any individual case. Some people bear the lead injections without serious disturbance, while others show evidence of poisoning so promptly that the treatment has to be abandoned. . . . "The gist of the matter is, then, that we have...
...From this survey it will be evident that the final solution of the cancer problem has not been reached and patients will still have to rely upon early diagnosis and prompt surgical treatment as at present for the most effective means of curing early cancer. Radium and X-ray still remain useful forms of treatment where surgery is not available, and colloidal lead seems to promise hope to others. But at present no final judgment can be rendered concerning its efficacy, nor does it seem likely that in the near future will any great improvement in its use be discovered...
...cancer died recently Beatrix Hamilton Leacock, who married in 1900 Stephen Butler Leacock, professor of political economy at McGill University, Montreal. Far gone with the disease, she had journeyed to Liverpool to enlist the colloidal lead solution treatment of Professor William Blair Bell. But he could do her no good. She was one of the 250 he ministered to, one of the 200 he could not benefit, one of the few who died. For years Professor Leacock had watched his wife dying; had watched come over her the pallor and emaciation of brave suffering. But a public had come...