Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Duane has for many years been engaged in research on the subject of X-rays not only from a purely theoretical point of view, but also from the point of view of their application for the treatment of cancer. The extremely penetrating X-rays which he has recently discovered how to obtain, are shortly to be applied to the alleviation of cancer by the Harvard Cancer commission...
...have lost their ability for cool unprejudiced decision, serenity of spirit and judgment are gone, and Europe rocks with turmoil and antagonism. Russia is merely Europe intensified and can never be cured of her sickness by application of the drastic knife; she suffers from a fever, not a cancer...
...Medical School, working in collaboration with research students of physics, have made it possible to secure X-rays of more penetrating quality than have ever before been obtained in this country, and these rays are now to be used for the first time in America for the alleviation of cancer...
While it is emphatically stated by Professor Duane that neither X-rays nor radium should be considered a permanent cure for all kinds of cancer, it has long been known that radium has a marked alleviative effect upon this disease, and the University physicists have reason to believe that the effect of the new highly-penetrating X-rays will be equally beneficial...
...Harvard Cancer Commission is erecting a new building adjoining the Collis P. Huntington Hospital in Boston, where an X-ray plant will be installed as well as the Commission's radium plant. Confident that the life of cancer patients may thus be prolonged, life insurance companies of Boston have given over $30,000 toward the new building...