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Word: choriocarcinoma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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GESTATIONAL CHORIOCARCINOMA. Before chemotherapy, this cancer that originates in the placentas of pregnant women killed 90% of its victims within a year. Drs. Min Chiu Li of Nassau Hospital, Mineola, N.Y., and Roy Hertz of New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y., have used chemotherapy to apparently cure up to 90% of patients diagnosed within four months of the onset of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kudos for Clinicians | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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