Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roving surgeon flew in, and at Dr. Dooley's request removed what he could of the lump, sent it to the laboratory for testing. Last week Dr. Dooley was back in the U.S. on the strength of the lab report: sarcoma-a fast-spreading cancer, often quickly fatal...
...nurses trained in the hospital, Medico turned it over to the Laos government. Dr. Dooley returned to the U.S. to deliver another book (The Edge of Tomorrow) and more lectures, raise funds for a similar pioneering hospital at Muong Sing. He had been there close to a year when cancer struck. This week, about to undergo surgery in St. Louis, Dr. Dooley is full of plans to open more hospitals in Laos...
...Niehans bars the use of cellular injections in patients with infections. Furthermore, he insists, patients get no X rays, diathermy, vaccinations, liquor or tobacco. He makes no claim to have cured cancer, but insists that among the thousands of patients to whom he personally has given 20,000 injections, none have later developed cancer...
Lithe and energetic, crewcut, always hatless and usually coatless in the bitterest weather, Rhoads directed his campaign against cancer with a crusader's zeal. He trod on many toes, was accused of being arbitrary and autocratic, of regimenting his 300 elite researchers and their supporting forces. Dr. Rhoads believed that the public must understand cancer research to support it, talked freely to the press. Subject of a TIME cover (June 27, 1949), he was photographed at the helm of his sailboat. This was what a willful band of little men in the New York County Medical Society had been...
Died. John Gamble Kirkwood, 52, Chemistry Department chairman at Yale University, who developed a new method of separating blood proteins, at 28 won the American Chemical Society's Langmuir award in pure chemistry; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn...