Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Johnny English, 14, who was kept alive during a critical period of his illness last summer by his hopes of a victory for the Chicago Cubs in the World Series; of neurogenic sarcoma (nerve cancer); in Chicago. Told of the fourth straight defeat of the Cubs last fall, he replied: "Well, you can't always...
...legislation as Franklin Roosevelt's. Under the Social Security Act of 1935 Congress authorized annual expenditures of $3,800,000 for maternal and child health, $8,000,000 for grants to State health departments, $3,000,000 for the blind. In 1937, it appropriated $1,500,000 for cancer, in 1938, $3,000,000 for venereal disease...
From the age of twelve, when her mother died of cancer, till she was 23, when she married, Elizabeth Bowen lived much of the time with relatives in England, or on her own in Continental and English boarding houses, returning to Bowen's Court only on visits...
...tendency to cancer in a specific organ may be inherited. Thus lung cancers run in some families, breast cancers in others...
...conclusion of their study the scientists urged the Council to compile detailed medical histories of cancerous families. They also urged laboratory study of "the fundamental problem" in cancer: the origin of the "cell with a capacity for unlimited or uncontrolled growth." Private workers and agencies have "almost entirely neglected" this problem, and it is up to Government workers, concluded the scientists, to answer the crucial question: ". . . Is there a break in the internal control mechanism of the cell, or is there a loss in body control of cell activity...