Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cancer of a single small area of the skin is usually not a serious disease -X rays and surgery have achieved a cure rate of at least 98%. Yet all skin cancer cannot be lightly dismissed. Each year it claims 80,000 new victims and causes 4,000 deaths in the U.S., largely because some forms are highly malignant and remain virtually incurable. To make matters worse, the easily curable forms sometimes recur in numbers, and if they are not removed, they, too, be come lethal. For patients who have many superficial skin cancers, in which surgery or radiation...
Familiar But Unfamiliar. The two types of cancer involved are called basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas, from the types of skin cells among which they are found. For patients who had widespread forms of either of these cancers, Dermatologist Edmund Klein of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo tried using familiar anticancer chemicals-but he used them in an unfamiliar manner...
...Klein figured that with localized application he could keep the drugs out of the bloodstream and use them on skin cancers without any of the dangerous side effects. Cautiously, he injected minute doses between layers of the skin, or applied the drugs in ointments and creams. From the beginning, he got an encouraging and prompt response. Furthermore, a number of the drugs he was testing seemed to sensitize the patients' skin, particularly in the cancerous areas. Subsequent applications then caused a bright red, allergic-type reaction. As the dosage was repeated, the reaction got stronger, and selectively destroyed cancer...
...principals who act as if they were reading the daily yoghurt-production report on Radio Bucharest. Yet in the film's final scene, the question is put again with inquisitorial ferocity. Reunited with his wife at last, the hero finds her a middle-aged ruin, with skin like cracked mud and a rapist's baby in her arms. In her eyes he sees the wreck that horror and hardship have made of him. At that instant, a newsman arrives to take a picture of them. "Everybody smile!" the photographer hollers with a snarling cheeriness that the horrified hero...
That sort of talk does not endear Brooke to the militants. Some hotheads in the rights movement virtually accuse him of being an Uncle Tom. To millions of other Negroes, his image is blurred at best. Because of his pale skin, his Episcopalian faith, his reserved New England manner, he is looked upon as what might be described as a "NASP"?the Negro equivalent of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Only two of his 19 Senate staffers are Negroes, because Brooke refuses to hire people on the basis of race; to many Negroes that in itself is grounds...