Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Wesley M. Coates, 29, codesigner of a new 1,200,000-volt X-ray machine for treating cancer in Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research; by electrocution, after brushing against a 5,000-volt feed-in wire; in his X-ray room...
...Cancer Control. So eager was the U. S. medical profession to cooperate in this anti-cancer campaign that last week the four important U. S. organizations dealing with cancer-the American College of Surgeons, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Society for the Control of Cancer-formed a Cancer Council, which will answer any reasonable question about cancer sent by doctor or layman to headquarters at No. 1250 Sixth Avenue, New York City. Members of this Cancer Council are: Dr. Frank E. Adair, Memorial Hospital, New York...
...Jackson Memorial Laboratory in 1929. At Bar Harbor, in a small building whose solid brick walls exclude stray mice, he produces 150,000 mice a year, sells 50,000 to other scientific institutions for research, anatomizes 25,000 to analyze their inherited characteristics, especially their susceptibility to cancer...
Within a few weeks trustees of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, remembering that just after he got out of college he spent four years with the Harvard Cancer Commission, that he was one of the world's authorities on the inherited susceptibility to cancer and a good executive wanting an extra job, hired him as managing director. The Society pays him $9,000 a year (out of which he must pay his traveling expenses), does not object to his work at Jackson Memorial. This renewed security enabled Dr. Little to marry a Phi Beta Kappa...
...Field Army drive begins this week, Dr. Little resonantly declared of his new task: "Why do I feel so deeply about it? Because I have both experienced, understood and, I am afraid, caused too much suffering, and hate it. Because my own father died as a result of cancer. Because perhaps whatever ancestral desire I have to explore the unknown is appealed to by the research work and the wish to be a 'crusader,' which almost all of us have, is given a chance to express itself. Finally, because I believe that Americans will be happier and saner...