Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another fact is that cancer is not curable in the sense that its cause (or causes) is known and can be combated directly. But thousands of investigators are on the track. Although Dr. Francis Carter Wood of Columbia University last week growled to the Manhattan colloquium that there are not more than 50 competent cancer research workers in the world and therefore he would not recommend large endowments for cancer research laboratories such as Dr. James Ewing urges (TIME, Jan. 17, 1931), some one of the lesser multitude may any day sniff out some great discovery in the cancer field...
Declared Dr. Wood: "Almost every known analine dye, many alkaloids, all metals, ground up tumor particles, filtrates from tumor cells, extracts from all the organs, serums from animals have been injected with cancer cells so as to produce an antibody. But all these have been tried and have failed with two exceptions." The exceptions: lead, which is dangerous; a powerful antiserum, which does not effect a tumor that has started to grow...
...Cancer is baffling to deal with, "because it is not one disease but a group of diseases. Each one may have a variable number of causes. It is a disease that rises within the body itself, without always requiring an outside agent to produce it. Until a marked and constant difference between normal and cancer cells can be discovered, a vague, undirected search for cancer is a waste of time...
Despite disappointments certain advances have been made during the year in the treatment and alleviation of cancer. In Chicago Dr. Loyal Edward Davis of Northwestern University Medical School & Director Max Cutler of Michael Reese Hospital tumor clinic have been treating certain brain tumors by inserting radium needles into the diseased brain tissue itself. In Manhattan Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of the Neurological Institute & associates are saving nine out of ten of their brain tumor cases by early diagnosis and bold excision...
...first a cancer, except one at the tip of the tongue, causes no pain. But as the growth increases and eats into sensory nerves, the pain becomes indescribably horrible. Morphine has long been the doctor's analgesiac. Dr. Henry Swartley Ruth, Philadelphia homeopath, who attended the Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan last week, recommended alcohol as a pain killer. He traces the sensory nerve leading from the site of the cancer and injects about a cubic centimeter of 45% alcohol near the point where the nerve trunk joins the spinal cord. The alcohol deadens the pain completely, does...