Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sympathetic Escort. With a staff of 50 volunteers on call around the clock, West Springfield's Fish has been able to help people in countless small human ways. When one man with five children discovered that his wife was dying of cancer, Fish volunteers took turns cooking meals for the family, doing the laundry, and continued helping out for several weeks after the woman died. Another grateful recipient of Fish's aid was a woman returning home from the hospital after an operation. When she told Fish that she needed someone to clean her house but couldn...
...Harvard-Worcester study will involve approximately 10,000 women in Haiti and Puerto Rico, half of whom have been using birth control pills and half vaginal contraceptives. Pincus has been working with the groups since 1956, looking for signs that birth control pills repress cervical cancer. For the last four years Dr. Rutstein has been responsible for organizing this experiment and analyzing data...
Died. Dr. Richard E. Shope, 64, pioneer virologist, who in 38 years at the Rockefeller Institute was the first to isolate an influenza virus (1931) and the first to prove that a virus could cause cancer in rabbits (1932), scored two other feats by surviving a form of meningitis (caught from lab mice) rarely found in humans and by being one of the few to survive eastern equine encephalitis without brain damage; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan...
Also patients with multiple burns could have dressings painlessly removed without having to be moved to the operating room. The finding could also be used to cure the pain of patients suffering from cancer...
...made his discovery accidently while cleaning silicone tubing he was using in a cancer experiment. He found the tubing still smelled of ether after it had been washed and dried...