Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home from the International Cancer Congress in Madrid Dr. James Ewing, director of cancer research at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital and foremost U. S. cancer authority, found cancer patients and physicians still in a hubbub over the Press's garbling of a paper he had read to the Congress. In an effort to erase from public memory such headlines as CANCER CURE AIM IS CALLED ABSURD and SAYS NUDISM BREEDS CANCER, Dr. Ewing last week issued a statement on cancer for laymen. Excerpts...
...statement that 'the idea of discovering a cure for cancer is absurd' should have read: 'The idea of discovering a single universal cure for all cancers is absurd...
Died, Dr. Burton James Lee, 59, cancer specialist, clinical professor of surgery at Cornell Medical College, director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for Cancer, president of the American Radium Society; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
Died. Andrea Liaptcheff, 66, onetime (1926-31) Premier of Bulgaria; of cancer; in Sofia...
...thick around the Portland airport, situated on an island in the Willamette River, when the ship took off for its run down the coast to San Francisco. Among the passengers was Dr. Robert Calvin Coffey, Portland surgeon famed for his work with cancer.† Across from him sat his assistant, Dr. John Straumfjord, with whom he was flying to Medford, Ore. to operate on a colleague. Leaving the airport the pilot circled gingerly up through the fog, edging perilously near the hills which rise abruptly to the west. Suddenly a wing tip gouged a tree on the hilltop. Down...