Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Research doctors have had some, but by no means complete, success with X rays, and with two classes of drugs-the anti-cancer chemicals and cortisonetype hormones. They have devised increasingly complex methods of matching white blood cells to reduce antibody formation, and of making antilymphocyte serum in horses to reduce the white cells' activity. This partial success has been sufficient to give today's recipient of a kidney transplant (from close kin or even an unrelated cadaver) at least a 65% chance of surviving...
Died. Cora Baird, 55, puppeteer; of cancer; in Manhattan. With her husband Bil, she created a magic world of dancing figures and impish characters, and for 30 years their Baird puppets, starring Hedda Louella McBrood and Edward R. Bow-Wow, entertained countless children in films, on TV and in shows from India to the White House...
...established the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, the first hospital unit devoted exclusively to the care of young cancer patients. Since then he has coordinated extensive research programs on cancer chemotherapy, surgery, and radiotherapy...
...addition to his advancement of specific drug use for leukemic children, Farber has been a prime force in the development of Federal and private cancer research and cancer control...
...president-elect of the American Cancer Society; last year he received the prestigious Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award. Farber has been professor of Pathology for 20 years and has been on the Medical School Faculty since 1929. The Wolbach professorsrip is in honor of the former pathologist-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1917 until...