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...received X-ray treatments to shrink her thymus gland, which doctors suspected was causing breathing problems. As a result of that medical vogue, she must now live with the knowledge that she is at least 20 times more likely than the average person to develop cancer of the thyroid, which is normally among the rarest of malignancies...
Psychiatrists have long suspected that there is a physiological basis for severe depression. They know that thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), a substance released by the hypothalamus at the base of the brain, triggers the production of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH); now, they hypothesize that it may have another function as well. Drs. Arthur Prange Jr. and Ian Wilson of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the North Carolina department of mental health have found that TRH, which can be synthesized in the laboratory, seems to function as an antidepressant. They have used it experimentally to provide apparently...
...types is startling. The three-year survival rate for patients with bladder cancer increased from 48% to 62% during the period covered by the study; for breast cancer, from 63% to 72%; for cancer of the cervix, from 53% to 63%. Improvements were also shown for cancers of the thyroid, prostate, larynx, brain, skin and bone...
...other's country. As a first step in carrying out an agreement reached during President Nixon's recent visit to Moscow, the Soviets will send the U.S. three drugs, which they have been using to treat cancers of certain white blood cells in the lymphatic system, thyroid and bladder cancers, and breast and ovarian tumors. In return, the U.S. will provide the Soviets with three drugs used experimentally against lung, skin, brain and intestinal cancers. The scientists will also trade research personnel and furnish each other with volumes of technical data concerning the safety and effectiveness...
Died. Edward C. Kendall, 86, biochemist who, with two colleagues, shared a 1950 Nobel Prize for the discovery of cortisone; in Rahway, N.J. After joining the Mayo Clinic in 1914, Kendall succeeded in isolating thyroxine from the thyroid glands of cattle, a development of importance to patients whose growth had been stunted by hormonal deficiencies. In 1930 he began research into the secretions of the adrenal cortex, and during eight years isolated six hormones, including cortisone, a substance effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Addison's disease and other ailments...