Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This report followed closely after another from Dr. Link having to do with crown gall, a local infection of apple trees which superficially at least resembles cancer in animals. Crown gall and cancer are both proliferations of unhealthy cells. Botanists have long known that the gall is caused by a bacterium, Phytemonas tumefaciens. Dr. Link succeeded in inducing galls by application of heteroauxin, keeping the bacterium away from the scene of operation...
President Conant has been named a member of the National Advisory Cancer Council, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the Public Health Service...
...newly created council, authorized by law, will guide the course of the National Cancer Institute at Rethesda, Maryland. Serving with five other prominent scientists among whom is Dr. Arthur H. Campton, Nobel Prize winner from the University of Chicago, President Conant will have as duties the consideration of regulations to govern the granting of aid to cancer control projects, and the creating of fellowships...
Several dozen U. S. hospitals have X-ray machines transforming 400,000 volts of electricity into X-rays for the treatment of cancer. Half-a-dozen have machines ranging from 600,000 to 1,200,000 volts. Last week the man most responsible for the development of vacuum tubes which accomplish those tremendous transformations of energy, Dr. William David Coolidge of General Electric Co., reminded the Fifth International Congress of Radiology in Chicago that Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a 5,000,000-volt generator which could be adapted for X-ray work, told them that an experimental...
...First gesture of grateful Czechs was to elect him President, which post he held until failing health forced him to resign in 1935; last gesture of grateful Czechs was to award him seven years ago a private fortune of $600,000, which he promptly gave to a fund for cancer study...