Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CANCER...
...Cancer of a single small area of the skin is usually not a serious disease -X rays and surgery have achieved a cure rate of at least 98%. Yet all skin cancer cannot be lightly dismissed. Each year it claims 80,000 new victims and causes 4,000 deaths in the U.S., largely because some forms are highly malignant and remain virtually incurable. To make matters worse, the easily curable forms sometimes recur in numbers, and if they are not removed, they, too, be come lethal. For patients who have many superficial skin cancers, in which surgery or radiation...
Familiar But Unfamiliar. The two types of cancer involved are called basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas, from the types of skin cells among which they are found. For patients who had widespread forms of either of these cancers, Dermatologist Edmund Klein of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo tried using familiar anticancer chemicals-but he used them in an unfamiliar manner...
...away from his consulting room and sending his specimens by mail-regardless of the fact that delay may make many of them useless. Some mail-order laboratories have been caught sending out test "results" on specimens that they had never examined, even in such life-and-death matters as cancer smears...
...never wavered in his support of states rights and segregation, took pride in blocking education and labor legislation ("I never knew the Republic to be endangered by a bill that was not passed," he once said), notably in 1956 when he killed a $1.6 billion school construction bill; of cancer; in New Bern...