Word: melanoma
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...piece of a melanoma (a highly malignant cancer) was transplanted from a desperately ill young woman to her mother "in the hope of gaining a little better understanding of cancer immunity, and in the hope that the mother's production of tumor antibodies might be helpful in the treatment of the cancer patient." The patient died the day after the transplant, the mother died of melanoma 15 months later...
...regaled the country's moppets for nearly half a century with 71 books (7,500,000 copies and some 15,000 hare-raising tales about Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Reddy Fox and other denizens of the Green Meadow that were syndicated in nearly 100 U.S. newspapers; of malignant melanoma; in Hampden, Mass...
...Dooley replied: "I know of but one meek, humble man who accomplished anything. That was more than 1,900 years ago-and I'm not so sure he was meek and humble." Then, in August, 1959, Dooley underwent chest surgery at New York's Memorial Hospital for melanoma-a rapidly diffusing form of cancer that is almost always quickly fatal...
Doctors were optimistic at first, but the melanoma spread to his back. Thin, exhausted and in pain, Dooley checked into a Hong Kong hospital last November, was fitted with a brace ("my Iron Maiden") that extended from his shoulders to his hips. "I am not going to quit," Dooley insisted, with a typical touch of melodrama. "I will continue to guide and lead my hospitals until my back, my brain, my blood and my bones collapse...
While radiologists went to work on the melanoma in one of his kidneys, papers for Rosenberg's retirement were started through channels. By the time the retirement board got around to him, Rosenberg seemed to have recovered. Said he: "It's silly to say I'm sick. You ought to send me back to sea." But another medical examination revealed a cancerous area in the groin. Navy doctors went to work on that, and the board retired Rosenberg...