Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish the Cancer Society and the U.S. Health Department would go on about their business and leave us smokers alone. They must have other work...
Test-Tube Growths. X rays and other forms of radiation have long been known to cause breaks in chromosomes. So have some viruses and a few drugs used in the treatment of cancer. To these must now be added drugs of many types. Columbia University's Dr. O. Jack Miller noted that the widely used "major tranquilizer," chlorpromazine (Thorazine), has been shown to produce breaks in a few cases, and even the antihistamine diphenhydramine (Benadryl) in one case. Western Reserve's Dr. Mor ton Stenchever added the popular minor tranquilizers chlordiazepoxide and diazepam (Librium and Valium...
Early Shocks. The parsonage at Haworth has become a legend, a crucible of creativity in which the children imagined fantastic kingdoms peopled with fabulous heroes. It also produced recurring tragedy. Mother died of cancer when Charlotte was five. Three years later, her two older sisters died of consumption at an abominable boarding school, where they had been half starved. At Charlotte's own boarding school, one classmate sized her up as "a little old woman in very old-fashioned clothes." Unfortunately, the classmate said as much to Charlotte, who ever after suffered self-conscious torments over her ugliness, particularly...
Later, skin cancer may develop at this site, said Dr. Morgan. Hidden from view are internal cancers (especially of the thyroid), which may take many years to develop, and leukemia or "cancer of the blood." If a woman has a pelvic X ray in the first weeks of pregnancy, the fetus may be damaged, to be aborted or stillborn, or the child may eventually develop leukemia. Completely hidden from diagnosis or measurement are genetic effects, which do not appear until a later generation...
Died. Ralph Humphrey, 60, older brother of the Vice President, manager of the family's drugstore in Huron, S. Dak.; of cancer; in Minneapolis...