Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brick-and-stone "campus" rising near the East River. Founded in 1884,* Memorial is the oldest U.S. cancer hospital. But its expansion to a university began only two years ago, is still under way. Next door to its eight-year-old, Rockefeller-financed main building is its new Strang clinic (for prevention and early detection of cancer). Nearly finished: the $4,000,000 Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Also abuilding: a 300-bed municipal cancer hospital, which Memorial will operate. Among Memorial's ambitious plans: further additions, new equipment, a $200,000 Betatron (to be used for radiation...
...grim field, the university is pioneering almost alone. Memorial has the nation's only hospital ward for children with cancer. With only 17 beds, the ward has long waiting lists. And each month some 290 treatments are given to young cancer patients in the hospital's crowded clinic. Memorial's doctors admit that children's cancers are among the most baffling (and most tragic) of all, and that "the mortality rate ... is extremely high...
Commented Dr. Erich Uhlmann, expert in radium therapy and director of the tumor clinic at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital: "Yes, and if you bow east three times, it helps...
Radcliffe opens its season at the annual play day get-together of 15 colleges, scheduled this year for Beaver Country Day School October 25. This is a clinic for coaches and prospective officials and short games are played with opponents selected by the toss of a quarter...
...recruited Leon E. Edwards '51, a first-term veteran student who expects to become a father any moment now and was willing to spend his afternoons on the job. About all that is needed now to finish the clinic is a little paint...