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...Announced: two promising new treatments for cancer of the prostate, which kills some 22,000 Americans annually. Yale's Dr. Clyde L. Deming reported that massive doses of the female hormone estrogen (instead of the small doses previously used) help four cases out of five and often prolong life. At the University of Chicago, three researchers found that a drug called ethyl carbamate is also effective; it relieves pain, reduces the size of the cancer. But unless cautiously given, the drug may be fatal...
...Chinese common man has one and only one wish-that is to stop the internecine civil war at once. Any outside interference from any country would only prolong and intensify his sufferings...
...Varsity golfers will fee off against Williams today on the Williamstown lines in an attempt to prolong the Crimson's unbeaten record...
...Alexander Brunschwig, of the University of Chicago, specializes in operating on cancer patients given up as inoperable by other surgeons. His drastic operations, he admits, rarely cure, but they usually make the patient more comfortable, often prolong life for years. In a clinical report published last week (Radical Surgery in Advanced Abdominal Cancer; University of Chicago Press; $7.50), Dr. Brunschwig described "the most radical [successful] operation yet recorded...
...detected early, Dr. Ivy observed, stomach cancer is far from hopeless. An operation removing part or all of the stomach may prolong life five to ten years. But once a stomach cancer spreads to the liver, the patient is doomed; though man can do without a stomach, he cannot survive without a liver...