Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cancer Too. The clenched fist of a patient describing his chest pain is a vivid illustration of the discomfort at the time of an occlusion. About two weeks after an otherwise undetected occlusion, the patient may have a hand (usually only one) that is swollen, shiny, discolored and stiff. The stiffness comes from thickening of the fibrous layer just below the skin down the middle of the palm. It may pull the fingers together and sometimes also downward. Skin thickening and stiffness of this type may be the signs of a previous and hitherto-undetected coronary occlusion...
...important breakthrough in cancer research was announced Wednesday. Dr. Richard E. Wilson, associate professor of Surgery, was able to demonstrate the ability of the body's natural antibodies to reject cancer cells...
...August 1964, Wilson transplanted a kidney from a cancer victim to a patient. Then, in January 1966, he discovered that the transplant had induced in his patient the same form of cancer that had killed the kidney donor. Wilson discontinued the use of immunosuppressive drugs which had inhibited the patient's ability to reject the transplant by weakening the antibodies...
...patient's body responded by rejecting both the kidney and the cancer. Subsequently, after the drugs had been recontinued to allow a new operation, the cancer failed to reappear, indicating a complete cure...
...Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman Sea. But any temptation to romanticize Chichester's feat will be quenched by a reading of this distillation from his 200,000-word...