Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hundred thousand U. S. women have cancer. Some 80,000 will die of it this year. Some 40,000 need not die of it if they take or have taken advantage of the resources which Medicine has so far marshaled against the nation's second most common cause of death. About six women get cancer to every five men. The most prevalent forms of cancer in women, however, are cancer of the breast and womb, which are the most curable. To bring this message of warning and hope to the 45,000,000 U. S. women was this...
More than any other disease, cancer has the imagination of mankind. It slowly, painfully, and science does yet know its causes or mechanism...
...This is merely the beginning. It will be great fight - a war worth waging. Lives by the thousand will be prolonged or saved-some by aroused personal courage, others by the spread of knowledge to those who need it. There is no longer need to fight cancer alone. Hundreds of thousands will share the burden, understand the sufferings which too long have seared the very soul of men and women. At a time when our country is inclined to develop class, race or creed consciousness or hatreds the menace of a common enemy and the inspiration of fighting it together...
Doctors will have a better chance of seeing early cancer while its curable. It is a hard tast requiring patience-trench warfare with a vengeance against a ruthless killer. No quarter need be given or asked...
...Cancer Problem. A cancer is an abnormal growth which may occur anywhere in the body, which destroys adjoining normal tissue, and which may send portions of itself to take root and grow in distant vital organs...