Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Binz and Raeth of Berlin asserted that they had sorted out from cancer pus a fat little, wand-shaped germ which they were able to breed. They could look at it under a microscope and believe it to be a parasite whose virus may cause some type of cancer...
Several weeks last summer Engineer George Albert Soper, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, loped about Europe with a bundle of banknotes in his hand. In certain capitals he stopped to search out a professor eminent for cancer researches and to invite the personage to a first International Symposium on Cancer Control to be held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. If, as did happen, the man he wanted hesitated over the expenses of a trans-atlantic voyage, Dr. Soper (he is a doctor of philosophy) was prepared to press expense money upon...
Last week the symposium took place with European, Canadian and U. S. specialists attending. Little that they said was new. But the aggregate of the facts presented will have the effect of stirring up public interest in cancer control. After all, that was the main purpose of the symposium...
Frequency. "At and beyond the age of ten in the life table generation of 100,000 persons there would have occurred fifteen years ago 5,874 cancer deaths to the end of life. In 1924, among a similar group of persons at the age of ten, the total cancer toll would have been 8,652. That is to say, the probability of ultimately dying from cancer was increased 47.3 per cent. In 1910 the cancer budget in the life table generation of 100,000 females at the age of ten was 9,850. But under the conditions of 1924 that...
Died. Dr. William Francis Campbell, 58, distinguished surgeon, cancer specialist; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, of cancer, following a nervous breakdown four months...