Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time is the most valuable thing in life, and I don't want to waste it," he said once. Feeling a stab of pain on the eve of his latest mission to Europe (see The Administration), he told a close friend: "If it isn't cancer, then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then any additional discomfort doesn't fundamentally matter anyway...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' doctors gave him a fighting chance Sunday to recover enough from cancer to stay on the job at least part time...
They insisted it was too early yet for any worthwhile prognosis. They said medical science is far from powerless in dealing with cancer. Perhaps more importantly, they said no doctor ever would count out a man of Dulles' physical strength and will power...
...doctors have ruled out further surgery. Radiation therapy is scheduled to start this week. If that does not control the cancer, medical experts say a variety of other treatments could be tried--drugs derived from nitrogen mustard gas or perhaps injections of radiotive gold...
Then Dick Neuberger, who for five months had been under surgical and cobalt radiation treatment for cancer, prepared to resume Senate duties in Washington. Senator Neuberger, 46, had a new, sober cause in his life-legislation for medical research. "No one really grows up," explained he, "until he realizes...