Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cancer is curable, the American College of Surgeons has decided. So certain are the surgeons of this that they used the phrase as the title of their most important symposium in St. Louis last week. Two dozen able surgeons stood up in meeting one after another and reported 8,836 onetime cases of cancer known to be cured. Most dramatic witness was Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, Cornell Medical School urologist. Cried he: "I am an example of the cure of cancer. Three cancers have been removed from my face by radium or actual cautery...
...morale, to cheer up the public. For several years doctors have tried to scare everyone with a new, unaccountable lump on his body into running for medical examination. That was all very well, until psychiatrists began to complain that they were being overworked and underpaid by daffy cancer-phobes. It seemed wise to right-face concerning cancer, sound an encouraging clarion...
Several accidents have contributed to this new cancer attitude. The American Society for the Control of Cancer no longer has much money for an effective anti-cancer campaign, although the Society has just announced it would enlarge its Bulletin and have nothing to do with the Chemical Foundation's American Journal of Cancer. Another accident has been the shyness of the Society's director. Dr. Clarence Cook Little, with the Press-the cheapest, most effective means of honorable public health propaganda...
Fact is-and what was meant by the surgeons in St. Louis and other cheerleaders who began a fortnight's discussion of tumors at the New York Academy of Medicine last week-that cancer is curable if recognized very soon after its first development in the body. Then it can very often be eradicated by knife (steel or electric), X-ray or radium. Declared Dr. Franklin H. Martin, director-general of the College of Surgeons and organizer of their cancer symposium: "If all cases of cancer could be diagnosed early and treated promptly in their incipiency, the annual death...
Died. Francis Murray Wilson, 65, Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri; of cancer of the stomach; in Kansas City. Mo. Named as Nominee Wilson's successor was Guy B. Park, 60-year-old Platte City judge...