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...takes only five minutes," said officials," and this time could be reduced to two minutes if desired. The great quantity and penetrating power of these rays permits the administration of much larger doses to deep-seated tumors than has hitherto been possible with lower voltage X-Rays or with radium...
That women who expect to develop cancer of the breast should have their ovaries destroyed by knife, X-ray or radium was a suggestion which Dr. Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic last week proposed in the American Journal of Cancer. His theory: female sex hormones affect the breast; mice deprived of their sex hormones do not develop cancer of the breast; cancer of the breast improves in some women after oöphorectomy (castration...
Died, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Phillips, 70, famed Princeton geologist, onetime (1911-16) mayor of Princeton, N. J.; of heart disease; at Princeton. In the carnotite ore of Utah and Colorado ten years ago he discovered and refined the first U. S. radium. Died, Andrew Jackson Montague, 74, Democratic Representative from Virginia since 1913, onetime (1902-06) Governor; after long illness; in Urbanna...
...Music, in Religion and in Science, 1936 was barren of a Man or Woman of the Year. Typical was Mme Curie-Joliot, daughter of the late great discoverer of radium, who became in 1936 one of the first three women ever to reach French Cabinet rank. Not one of these proved an outstanding success and Mme Curie-Joliot, disgusted with what she saw of politics, soon resigned. No Einstein Theory shot meteoric across Science's sky, no deathless melody, canvas or sculpture won world acclaim...
...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 by Dr. Gioacchino Failla of Manhattan and Dr. Henri...