Word: hektoen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Surgeon General Thomas Parran granted Ernest Orlando Lawrence $30,000 to use in cancer experiments. Last week Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, director of the National Advisory Cancer Council, announced that a group of cancer patients, drawn from a special list in the University of California's San Francisco teaching hospital, have been placed under the cyclotron for treatment. Wary of raising false hopes, Dr. Hektoen warned that "these treatments are purely experimental...