Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighty-five per cent of cancer can be cured," stated Clarence C. Little '10, Head of the American Society for Prevention of Cancer and former President of the Universities of Maine and Michigan, and Secretary of the Harvard Corporation in 1910-12, "if it is caught in its early stages...
...Last year in the United States there were 140,000 deaths attributed to the disease, and at least, half of these could have been prevented if the cases had realized that they had cancer in the beginning. This is the second largest source of death in the country--the largest being the combination of all the various diseases of the heart...
Next to the vitamin exhibit is a collection of samples of cancer-producing compounds and their intermediates discovered and isolated by Louis F. Fleser, associate professor of Chemistry. Other supplements to the "Children of Recovery" exhibit include a diorama, showing the late Theodore W. Richards at work in his Harvard laboratory...
Interested in the possible value of the element for cancer therapy. Chemist von Grosse took a photomicrograph of his precious mite by the light of its own rays. The pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked...
...past few years," he declared, "there have been three outstanding cosmetic procedures that have been dangerous to the general public: Removal of superfluous hair by X-ray which has resulted in scars and cancer; the use of certain dyes on the eyelashes and eye-brows which has caused blindness and death; and the use of thallium acetate in creams to remove superfluous hairs which has caused serious illness and death...