Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cancer causes one-tenth of all deaths among grown-ups in the U. S. Yearly from 100,000 to 125,000 people die here from this dis ease. It presents itself in four main ways: 1) epithelial, in which there is no rodlike framework; 2) scirrhous or hard, in which the framework predominates and the tumor is hard and of slow growth; 3) encephaloid or soft, in which the cellular element predominates and the tumor is soft, grows rapidly and often ulcerates; and 4) colloid, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three are also called carcinoma. There...
...source of cancer has not been determined finally, whether cellular, blastodermic or what. Certainly a cell, strange to its surroundings, proliferates, eats into neighboring tissues, causes horrible sufferings and despair...
Prof. Wood's Report. Last week the American Society for the Control of Cancer met in Manhattan; heard its Managing Director, Dr. George A. Soper, report on European activities against cancer; heard too Professor Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research, report on most recent remedial research...
...England, at Liverpool, Dr. William Blair Bell, Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Liverpool, has been treating cancer patients by injecting into their veins a certain amount of metallic lead in a very fine state of suspension, a so-called colloidal lead. He has treated 250 patients. Of these 50, or one out of five, showed improvement. The solution is very unstable; keeps only 48 hours; cannot be transported. Patients must be hospitalized and kept under exceptionally expert supervision. Dr. Wood reported...
Died. Major General William H. Hart, 61, Quartermaster General of the U. S. Army; at Washington, of cancer of the stomach...