Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Medical researchers are gradually isolating parts of the complex of diseases loosely called cancer, and almost to their own surprise, they find that they are achieving survivals of at least five and ten years for a heartening number of patients. In cancer cases, such remissions are considered tantamount to cure. Last week at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan an internation al gathering of radiologists heard that this improvement is now being accomplished for many victims of Hodgkin's disease and related cancers. The higher cure rate, they heard, can be extended not only to greater numbers...
Died. Pierre Rey, 70, financial adviser to Prince Rainier and president of Monaco's controlling Société des Bains de Mer from 1953 to 1959, chairman since 1963; of cancer; in Monaco. As boss of the S.B.M., which includes the casino, the yacht club the Hôtel de Paris and about one-third of Monaco's 375 acres, Rey was Rainier's lieutenant in the long struggle with Aristotle Onassis that ended last year when the government paid $8,000,000 for Onassis' interests in the casino company...
...Wilson and his colleagues performed a second transplant on Palazola in November 1966. This time the donor was his mother. Last week the doctors reported that "he had returned to full daily activity and has remained free of cancer...
...misogynic whimsy by Freelancer Pete Hamill urging the drafting of women. Hamill arrived at this conclusion after noting the behavior of a group of women who gathered in front of a police station after a rape suspect was brought in. They screamed: "Give him cancer." Writes Hamill: "It is at those moments that you understand that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, after all, a play about counter-insurgency...
Died. Doretta Morrow, 42, onetime Broadway beauty, star in The King and I and Kismet; of cancer; in London. Blessed with a crystal soprano, she rose to stardom as Tuptim in 1951's The King and I, went to Hollywood in Because You're Mine with Mario Lanza, and returned to more cheers with Alfred Drake in 1953's Kismet-then in 1960 tossed it all aside to marry a London insurance executive...