Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first installments also single out three top figures for special treatment: Barry Goldwater; his brother Robert, a real estate developer who managed the family retail business until 1970; and Harry Rosenzweig, a close friend of the Goldwaters and longtime Republican state chairman. The report rehashed material about Barry that has been printed before. U.S. Government investigators, who pronounced Barry "clean" of criminal connections, feel that he is getting something of a bum rap. Over the years, it has been reported that he occasionally palled around with gangsters on golf courses or in gambling casinos, and he once intervened...
Back to the Curies. Primitive variations of the treatment chosen by Blaschko date back to the turn of the century, when the Curies' discovery of radium made possible a radiation source compact enough to be placed within a tumor. Since then, the technique has been considerably refined and has long been used to treat certain cancers of the neck, head, vagina and other parts of the body difficult to cope with surgically. Now, U.S. doctors, confronted by 90,000 new cases of the disease a year, are showing an increased interest in the use of interstitial implants against breast...
...radiation treatment continues for three to five days. While she may be uncomfortable, the patient experiences little pain and negligible scarring. Sometimes the breast and lymph nodes are bombarded by external radiation as well; the patient may also receive anticancer drugs to destroy malignant cells elsewhere in the body...
Saccharin is very important in controlling diabetes, allowing diabetics to limit and accurately measure their sugar intake, Dr. Arnold L. Brown, chairman of the department of Pathology and Anatomy at the Mayo Clinic, which specializes in cancer treatment, said yesterday. United States," he added...
...Blumgart was the first to inject a radioactive substance into patients for treatment, Freedberg said. Blumgart used a derivative of radium to calculate blood flow rates...