Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relieved to some extent by medication is cancer of the prostate gland, and one of the most effective relieving agents is stilbestrol, a synthetic female sex hormone. Patients have gotten as much as ten years of borrowed time by stilbestrol (either alone or in conjunction with surgery). When the treatment is successful, the malignancy is arrested both at its original site in the prostate and in the metastases (cancerous colonies in other parts of the body). Until recently, however, no case had been reported in which the cancer was known to be destroyed...
Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body. After 15 weeks' treatment he was able to go back to work, taking daily doses of stilbestrol. Periodic checkups showed continued improvement, but a few weeks ago Patient Twaddle fell downstairs, broke his neck and died...
...every 100 male cancer victims, ten have cancer of the prostate, but only one of the ten gets to a doctor in time for successful treatment. In the current American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Robert Gutierrez of New York suggests that this proportion may eventually be raised to eight out of ten. His method: stilbestrol is used first to reduce an advanced cancer (too far gone to be surgically removed) to smaller, more manageable size. Then, he says, the growth can be cut out and the patient may have years of useful life...
Doubts & Difficulties. Scientists, however, grew jittery at what some called "unwarranted encouragement" for arthritis sufferers, and tried to calm the wave of optimism. The Mayo Clinic's Dr. Edward C. Kendall, one of the researchers who first announced the cortisone treatment, said of the report: "Interesting, but I don't think that is the answer." In the "four or five years" before enough seeds could be grown, he said, "we expect to have cortisone available in much larger supply from other sources." In the Merck laboratories, the Strophanthus product, sarmentogenin (first isolated in 1915), had already been carefully...
Quartet. A skillful British treatment of four Somerset Maugham stories (TIME...