Word: cervix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least 40,000 cancer deaths (including almost 13,000 women with easily detectable cancer of the cervix) could be prevented every year if available treatments were fully applied...
...patients had already been treated by surgery or radiation, which confused the picture. The doctors wanted to find cancer victims who had had no other treatment and for whom none was possible. The place, suggested the African Research Foundation, * was in and around Kenya, where cancer of the head, cervix and liver is common and medical care is scarce...
...plane, others by ambulance or on shanks' mare, barefoot. They represented more than a dozen tribes; some spoke languages so obscure that a series of three interpreters was needed. More than half the patients had cancer of some kind in the head, but seven had cancer of the cervix, one of the greatest killers of African women...
...most encouraging cases was a Jaluo woman of 35 whose cervix had been replaced by a fast-growing cancer mass. In four courses of treatment, totaling 15 days, the cancer shrank progressively. Within a month it disappeared. Now, more than four months after treatment, she is well, and apparently has no cancer remaining. To be on the safe side, the surgeons planted the outer ends of the polyethylene tubes under her skin so that they can easily resume treatment if it becomes necessary...