Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That women who expect to develop cancer of the breast should have their ovaries destroyed by knife, X-ray or radium was a suggestion which Dr. Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic last week proposed in the American Journal of Cancer. His theory: female sex hormones affect the breast; mice deprived of their sex hormones do not develop cancer of the breast; cancer of the breast improves in some women after oöphorectomy (castration...
...Herrell's facts: among the women patients of the Mayo Clinic, breast cancer is rare among those who have been castrated, common among those who have...
Left. By the late Dr. George Walker, longtime Johns Hopkins surgeon, chief urologist of the American Expeditionary Forces, who died of cancer a fortnight ago: $300,000 toward solving what he considered Medicine's most baffling problems -cancer, streptococcic infections, high blood pressure...
...Said Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. in Washington, apropos of nothing: "I feel confident another ten years could be added to the life expectancy, entirely aside from the possibility of discovering an effective preventive for cancer or major heart disease"-if doctors could offer and people would utilize all the medical knowledge now available...
Your reference to cancer killing "slowly, painfully" while generally true for the latter stages of cancer is unfortunate in that it overemphasizes the association of pain and cancer...