Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's leading authorities on child malignancies, Farber has made significant contributions to cancer research and child care...
...discovery of several chemicals that temporarily limit the growth of cancer cells in 1947 was a pathbreaker in the use of drugs for cancer control in children. Later, he found other drugs that killed spreading cancer cells and could be combined in treatment with radiotherapy...
...some cases this form of treatment has caused complete disappearance of the cancer, with the patient still surviving as many as ten years later (1967); this was the first time that any form of spreading cancer in a child could be destroyed with a high degree of regularity by any method of treatment...
...Cancer Research...
...Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology and Director of Research at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, has been appointed the first incumbent of the S. Burt Wolbach Professorship in Pathology at Harvard...