Word: sarcoma
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...last five weeks, a cancer of the breast, one of the jawbone, and a case of malignant, blackish moles (melanotic sarcoma) have received the first experimental treatments with a 20-million volt electron beam. So far, the doctors will say nothing about results. But they are sufficiently encouraged to go on trying the raw electrons...
...suspicion has settled on an enzyme, hyaluronidase, already known to be a "spreading factor." Last week a slim, blonde, 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Wyoming announced that she had picked up another jot of evidence against hyaluronidase: it is found in abnormally large amounts of sarcoma (cancer of the connective tissues) in mice -a disease much like human sarcoma...
...short, tentative step toward the control of one kind of cancer was announced this week by Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research. The variety of cancer: sarcoma, a deadly form which involves the body's connective tissues. The medication: Polysaccharides (multiple sugars) produced by bacteria...
More than 130 far-advanced cancer victims have been treated. None is considered cured, but all (especially those with sarcoma) seemed somewhat better and 20% to 30% showed marked improvement. When treatment began, a few patients had been given only a few months to live. Four years later, they are living "comfortable and productive lives...
...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...