Word: cancerous
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...capital of Alabama, Montgomery is a governmental ghost town. Since Governor Lurleen Wallace underwent a cancer operation in July, she has spent less than two weeks attending to her putative duties at the statehouse. Meanwhile, George Wallace, who wears the pants if not the titular authority in Alabama's first family, has spent 47 days out of state campaigning for President. At least ten top-ranking state officials, still drawing their regular salaries, are off helping Alabama's First Gentleman drum up votes...
Among almost a dozen chemicals which have a selective damaging effect on cancer cells, L-asparaginase is unique in one respect: its action is so much more selective that it appears to do no harm whatever to normal cells. Since L-asparaginase was erroneously reported to have cured a case of childhood leukemia (TIME, April 14; July 7), researchers have been trying to answer three main questions: 1) Against what types of cancer is it effective?; 2) Will a laboratory test show in advance whether a particular patient's disease will respond?; and 3) Even though L-Asparaginase spares...
Partial and partly reassuring answers are being reported this week to hematologists meeting in Toronto by Dr. Herbert F. Oettgen speaking for a research team at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. L-asparaginase is so scarce, besides being forbiddingly expensive,º that Dr. Oettgen could report on only 14 patients. Even this small number of cases made it clear that the enzyme is likely to be effective mainly, against only one common form of "blood cancer" - acute lymphatic leukemia. All seven patients with this type of disease showed prompt and marked improvement; among them were three children...
Died. Leon Mba, 65, President of the seven-year-old West African republic of Gabon; of cancer; in Paris. As a young nationalist firebrand, Mba (pronounced um-bah) gave his French rulers so many blisters that they accused him of cannibalism in 1938 and sent him into exile. On his return in 1946, he was so well behaved that he was boosted into the presidency after independence in 1960 and rescued by French paratroops when military men attempted a 1964 coup...
Keeping Fit. Returning to the U.S. at the start of World War II, Funk continued his cancer research, later theorized that oncotine and oncostimuline affect the growth of tumors, and postulated that an imbalance of the two might cause the disease. All the while, he retained more than a proprietary interest in nutrition, served as a research consultant to the U.S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Corp., helped develop artificial vitamins...