Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returned to his old home at Washington and surrendered to the District health authorities. The case of Early is a living tragedy, for he has been the subject of hot dispute among specialists, and has frequently been championed by Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. His disease has not progressed, apparently, and has never hindered him from a normal mode of life. But while he lived in freedom at various times, his reputation followed him, and indignant neighbors always hounded him away. His wife has stuck by him. though separated from...
Died. John M. Siddall, editor of the American Magazine, at Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y., of cancer of the stomach...
...that 20 years will be added to the average span of life in the next half century, and that the time is near when it will be "a crime" to die under 75 years of age from diabetes, Bright's disease, the cardiac vascular diseases and pos-sibly cancer. Dr. Leonard Williams, London specialist, recently made a similar statement, setting up 120 years as man's probable goal. It is true that the span of life in the United States has increased approximately 15 years since public health work was introduced...
...longest X-ray treatment for cancer on record was given last week in Bellevue Hospital, New York, b> Dr. I. Seth Hirsch. The patient was exposed for 56 hours to the maximum voltage (250,000) of a high-power X-ray machine, concentrated on an abdominal cancer in a position where surgical treatment was impossible, Several weeks will be required to determine the success of the treatment, but the patient's condition is favorable...
...William J. Mayo, sailing for Europe, where he will receive honorary degrees at Dublin and Leeds and present a paper at an international surgical congress in London, stated that he knew of no reliable cancer cure as yet. Few things are improbable in surgery, he said, but further research into the nature and cause of cancer is prerequisite. The apparent increase in cancer, he believes, is due partly to the lengthened span of life, as cancer is essentially a disease of middle...