Word: carcinoma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test was positive in 90% of cases with "invasive" cancer (one that has begun to grow into surrounding tissues), even when no symptoms of disease were evident. It detected not only typical cancer (carcinoma) but also leukemia and lymphosarcoma...
...until the end had come for Senator Taft could the doctors be certain what type of growth had killed him. The autopsy showed that it had been carcinoma, which in the patient's last days had reached the brain...
...laymen his disease was "cancer." To specialists, this means carcinoma, which is only one type of malignant tumor. Others: sarcoma, lymphosarcoma, myeloma...
...they say, "the association between smoking and carcinoma of the lung is real." But they do not go so far as to say that smoking is the sole cause of the increased death rate, or even that it is a factor in every case. There is still much to be learned about how it works...
...Evidence Here." The death certificate reported that Elizabeth May Ayres had died at 3:40 p.m. of "chronic myocarditis, chronic nephritis, carcinoma of the colon." Dr. Thomas L. Chiffelle, who was pathologist at Yale medical school at the time, testified that her body had been received a few hours after death and was soon embalmed. Said Pathologist Chiffelle : his examination did not confirm the causes of death listed on the certificate. Because of the embalming fluid, he could not make a satisfactory study of the blood in her body. Neither he nor a toxicologist could say what had caused Lizzie...