Word: melanoma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clinch the seriousness of this possible transition Dr. Affleck compared a group of Johns Hopkins patients who had benign melanoma (moles) excised with another group who suffered from malignant melanoma (black cancers). Four out of five of the cancers had started as moles. Dr. Affleck found that moles occurred most frequently on the face and neck, next most frequently on chest, back, arms, abdomen, legs. Black cancers appeared most frequently on the legs, arms, face, neck and back. "Highest incidence," noted Dr. Affleck, "is apparently in those areas most subject to trauma, the foot and the great toe being...
Black Cancer. An especially pernicious form of cancer called melanoma (black tumor) very often starts from an irritated mole. Full-blooded Negroes (black or brown) whose pigment is evenly distributed over their skins have seemed freer from these melanomata. Dr. Rudolph Matas of New Orleans, who in 1896 wrote on "Surgical Peculiarities of the Negro," believed that this was due to the probability that in the Negro pigment production is a normal function of the skin and under well-developed physiological control, whereas in whites pigment is limited to a few scattered areas and its physiological control is poorly developed...