Word: keloid
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Most of the scars seemed to result from the patients' burns, but there were puzzling exceptions: when a skin graft was taken from an unburned part of a patient's body, a keloid often developed there too. Could the victims' exposure to fission products-neutrons, gamma" rays, etc.-have something to do with it? The doctors did not know for certain, but they suspected that keloids might be ugly forerunners of cancer...
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