Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows perhaps in the dark ages of the world some highly civilized people incorporated cancer--perhaps it threw an enzyme of courage into our blood stream, perhaps we would be more sane now if this mistake had not been made...
...atoms in their stead. When luminous bacteria of the kind that produce phosphorescence in the sea were placed in heavy water at Princeton, their output of light was dimmed because their oxygen consumption was slowed. Pathologists at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital hoped heavy water might prove fatal to cancer cells, were disappointed to find the cells vigorous as ever after prolonged immersion...
Lined up in the fight against cancer last week were sunlight and a dye called phloxine. At Washington's Carnegie Institution young John F. Menke removed some cancer tissue from rats, put it in small glass vessels. There it lived and grew in a culture of the rats' blood. He added some phloxine, a dye closely related to mercurochrome. Nothing happened. Then he exposed the vessels to strong sunlight for five minutes. Activated by the light, the dye attacked the cancer cells, withered them in 30 to 180 minutes. But certain normal cells imbedded in the cancer tissue...
Even further removed from possible practical application were the researches which famed Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, reported to the American Association for Cancer Research in Toronto last week. First, by proxy, he upset the theory that tissue grafts of Rous sarcoma, a transplantable animal tumor, continue to grow and spread in their new host. Instead, the transplanted tumor, he had found, disintegrates, starts a new tumor growing around it. Later Dr. Banting himself stood up to tell the cancermen a story of his four fruitless years of trying to make chickens immune to Rous sarcoma...
With such patient, remote researches grows the body of knowledge which another Koch or Pasteur may some day synthesize into a cancer cure. In the meantime, cried Mayo Clinic's Dr. William Carpenter MacCarty in Toronto last week, let the world beware of any prolonged stomach ache or internal discomfort, no matter how slight. Said he: "It's a great mistake for people to think that cancer in its earliest stages produces any of the signs of severe illness. People should be warned to have examinations of internal ailments when there is still a chance for recovery...