Word: sarcoma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisp autumn Sunday. For a home in Cheyenne, Wyo. and a pale, three-year-old boy with a freshly barbered cowlick, it was Christmas. Ten doctors had agreed last month that young Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, 22 Ibs., bedridden for more than six weeks with incurable sarcoma of the bladder, would probably not live until...
...joined the Army in 1942. His experiment was done on a 45-day furlough at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. Says Corporal Cornman in this week's Science: "'[These studies] have revealed a selective lethal effect of penicillin upon rat and mouse sarcoma cells, of which a full account will be published later...
...Simmons' study of a series of consecutive cases of bone sarcoma is showing that the prognosis of this group of tumors is not as bad as most people seem to believe. Dr. Grantly W. Taylor has been studying on the results obtained in a series of cases of cancer of the breast in which an artificial menopause was induced as a therapeutic measure...