Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every mature person worries about cancer, yet few are acquainted with the simple facts of cancer prevention and cure. In an educational attempt to save some of the 150,000 U. S. citizens who are killed by the disease every year, Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, famed researcher on cancer and heredity and head of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, this week published the first calm, sensible handbook on cancer.* Significant facts...
Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME...
This statement without explanation tends to be misleading. Experimental studies indicate that chronic irritation alone does not cause cancer, but that chronic irritation plus some other factor in the body may cause cancer...
...tendency to cancer in a specific organ may be inherited. Thus lung cancers run in some families, breast cancer in others...
...National Cancer Institute Washington...