Word: moles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1903 to the day of his death last October, Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood. famed cancer pathologist, megaphoned to every human being with a mole upon his skin: "Beware of death-dealing black cancer! Watch that mole and, if it starts to grow, have it cut out before it is too late." Dr. Bloodgood believed with many another wise cancer specialist that it is worth scaring the wits out of 999 people in order to save the thousandth man from death by cancer...
...term mole refers to two separate kinds of growths in the body: 1) a soft, fleshy mass (Latin mola) in the womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment...
...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...
...There may be no noticeable change in the primary mole. . . . But the clinical onset may be characterized by enlargement of lymph nodes draining the area. Advancement of the growth from this stage may be slow or rapid...
...early," stages," Dr. Little continued, "there is absolutely no pain connected with cancer. It is merely the rapid growth of certain tissues far in excess of the surrounding ones. The thing to watch out for is the sudden enlarging or change in consistency of a mole or lump under the skin that one may have had since childhood. When this happens, competent medical examination should be made to determine whether cancerous tissue is involved in the change...