Word: cervix
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...rare in the Negro than in the white race, and that Negroes may even possess a sort of immunity to cancer in general." Of this Dr. Everett Lassiter Bishop of Atlanta was skeptical. In Atlanta's Steiner Cancer Clinic he found as many cancers of the breast and cervix in Negroes as in whites. Young Atlanta Negresses more often than young Atlanta white women have cervical cancer. Thinking that Negroes might have black cancer more often than Dr. Matas et al. believed, Dr. Bishop went hunting for dark moles on full-blooded cancerous Negroes. For clues he looked first...
...cancers by x-rays or radium does not in itself stir up secondary cancers. That radiation cures a cancer in one part of the body only to metastasize or shift it into another part, has been a credible theory. Cancer of the skin often follows irradiation of the cervix. X-raying of bladder tumors is often followed by cancer of the bone-marrow, lung, liver or skin. Cancer of the neck or throat frequently follows cure of a lip cancer. Doctors almost never discuss such questionable points with their patients, seldom mention them in print. But as Dr. Wood remarked...
...Cervix Uteri. Grant E. Ward of the Howard A. Kelly Hospital, Baltimore, explained to the A.M.A. Dallas visitors the radium treatment developed there for this type of cancer in the last 18 years. He described the apparatus used and the principle underlying the technique employed. In many cases radium has improved the patients, both symptomatically and physically...