Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Implant. A few minutes before 8 o'clock Friday morning Dulles was wheeled into an operating room, put under anesthetic. Surgeon Heaton cut a small incision in the patient's groin to get at the hernia, kept his eye peeled for a sign of recurrence of the cancer. On the hernia sac he found a suspicious-looking nodular implant. He noticed, too, that a small amount of abdominal fluid was released after the sac was cut away. By Walter Reed's high-speed pneumatic tubes he shot the tissue and the fluid to the laboratory...
After the President had gone, Dulles relaxed in his bed-blood pressure 125 over 70, temperature normal, pulse 70. Scheduled to begin this week: radiation therapy, the only treatment advisable for the serious condition of free-floating cancer cells. From Dulles' sister, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, a State Department Germany expert, came the closest approach to the truth that is possible in such a situation: "It is grave. There is no question about it. But Foster has more than the normal power of selfdiscipline, and in his case it isn't wise to go on averages...
...Capitol Hill there were signs of an early spring thaw. Mellowed by his long bout with cancer (TIME, Feb. 16), Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger went back to work, was greeted on the Senate floor by a crowd of well-wishers, headed by none other than his frosty old foe and senior colleague, Wayne Morse. Said Morse: "It is good to have him back with us." Replied Neuberger gaily: "So far as I am concerned, we will work together." Putting words into action, the two showed up for an Oregon centennial party next day, jointly labored through...
Medical men have been aware for half a century that X rays can be destructive to human tissue. Overdosage of X rays for benign purposes can have malignant consequences. Example: careless treatment may cure acne, but cause skin cancer. Despite this established knowledge, X rays are still being incautiously used as cure-alls...
...Cancer appeared in 36-or 22%-of the cases...