Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madison, Wis. last week 500 doctors gathered to hear the nation's foremost cancer specialists discuss what is known and what is not known about the second most common cause of death in the U. S.* Expenses of this cancer symposium were paid by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation which thereby saved local doctors about $75 each...
...James Ewing of Manhattan, undisputedly the world's No. 1 cancer authority, struck squarely at the entire cancer problem by saying: "The public must not expect cancer research to disclose the secret of the cause of cancer, nor to provide a universal remedy for advanced cancer. There is no one cause of cancer. There are many causes, often preventable, and the public should acquaint themselves with the nature of these causes...
Firmly established is the Slye doctrine that susceptibility to cancer is inherited as a recessive Mendelian character, transmitted by a single gene. Resistance to the disease is a dominant character, and represses, but does not obliterate, the susceptibility factor whenever they occur together. A resistant individual mated to a susceptible one will have resistant offspring. But these offspring carry the susceptibility gene concealed in their germ plasm, and if they mate with susceptibles the second generation will be liable to cancer. The Slye mice show that not only inherited susceptibility but also some injury or chronic irritation is necessary...
Said Professor Slye last week before leaving: "If we had records for humans comparable to those for my mice, we could stamp out cancer in a generation. Sweden has made a start toward such records, but no other country in the world is making such an effort. Meanwhile, cancer is a leading cause of death, and as we make progress in heart diseases, it is likely to become the first cause in a comparatively short time...
Died. Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson, 44, since 1931 Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor (see p. 14); of cancer the stomach; in Rochester, Minn...