Word: lundferd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest cancer discovery during the year-according to Sir George Lenthal Cheatle, British cancer expert who went to St. Louis to become an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons- was the discovery, by Dr. R. J. Lundferd of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, that a dye called trypan blue, frequently-used to treat malaria and African sleeping sickness, would stain healthy body cells, would not stain cancer cells. Trypan blue enables the pathologist to distinguish finely between healthy and cancerous tissue...
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