Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26--The weight of evidence implicates smoking as the main cause of rising lung cancer, the government's chief health officer declared Thursday...
This statement by Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney was the furthest the Public Health Service ever has gone in linking smoking and lung cancer...
...most women, at some stages of the disease, breast cancer can be slowed down or actually made to shrink by the male sex hormone testosterone. But this has unwanted side effects, causing many patients to grow beards and develop deep voices. Some women, Dr. Segaloff noted, put feminine charm before health and life and refuse testosterone treatment. But recent research, notably at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, has shown that when the body breaks down natural hormones, many of them have chemical descendants which are surprisingly potent, and sometimes in different ways from their parent substances...
...rebelled and turned out instead a variant called delta-1-testololactone. It was just as well: testololactone has proved to have all the virilizing properties of testosterone. But the delta1 variant, tested so far in 24 patients, proved in seven cases to be as potent as testosterone in suppressing cancer growth, and with no virilizing effects...
...despair of finding chemical cousins of sex hormones from which the sex-character stimulation could be divorced. But now that chemists have turned the trick with male hormones, they hope to repeat it with female hormones. This could be important to men, in far greater numbers than to breast cancer victims, because female hormones appear to afford some protection against the major dangers of atherosclerosis. But many men have refused them because of the feminizing effects from the doses usually given...