Word: radiologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Treatment of cancer is positive and often curative in cases of cancers which can be reached without cutting the patient open. Thus the rate of cure is comparatively high for cancers of the skin, breast, uterus. From those sites the surgeon usually can excise the offensive tumor or the radiologist can shrivel it with x-ray or radium. The great difficulty with cancers of internal organs is that they seldom warn the victim of their presence until it is too late to get rid of them. Nonetheless, surgeons can save the lives of an appreciable number of victims. Radiologists, guided...
...Franz Boas, who retires this year from the faculty of Columbia University where he served for 40 years, is noted for his work as (1 a physicist, 2 a surgeon, 3 an anthropologist, 4 a chemist, 5 a radiologist...
...Until a year ago, I would have been willing to endorse their statement," exclaimed Professor Gottwald Schwarz, University of Vienna's longtime radiologist. ". . . But accidentally I lately suffered a needle prick of the nail cuticle of my left index finger. This trifling injury gradually developed into an ulcer which today, after the lapse of one year, still does not show the least tendency toward healing." Day & night Professor Schwarz asks himself: "Have I a cancer? Should I have the finger...
...Kaplan, radiologist who supervises all the cancer work done in Manhattan's municipal hospitals: "We have ':ested over a hundred such claims in the I^ity Cancer Institute, not once but a number of times. They all proved to be absolutely worthless...
...Manhattan's Holland Society for achievement in art; the Duchess of Talleyrand (onetime Anna Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix of the French Academy of Sciences, for work in theoretical...