Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the President had gone, Dulles relaxed in his bed-blood pressure 125 over 70, temperature normal, pulse 70. Scheduled to begin this week: radiation therapy, the only treatment advisable for the serious condition of free-floating cancer cells. From Dulles' sister, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, a State Department Germany expert, came the closest approach to the truth that is possible in such a situation: "It is grave. There is no question about it. But Foster has more than the normal power of selfdiscipline, and in his case it isn't wise to go on averages...
During her maiden voyage of a year, the 800-bed Consolation will make ports of call where invited, give native doctors a chance to learn the latest American techniques, train medical aides in such fundamentals as vaccinations and blood tests, take patients aboard for treatment, including surgery. In turn, American crew members will get a firsthand look at some of the world's ills...
Medical men have been aware for half a century that X rays can be destructive to human tissue. Overdosage of X rays for benign purposes can have malignant consequences. Example: careless treatment may cure acne, but cause skin cancer. Despite this established knowledge, X rays are still being incautiously used as cure-alls...
...England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Bradford Cannon, Judson G. Randolph and Joseph E. Murray of Boston report that "patients continue to appear with permanent tissue destruction that has resulted from relatively recent radiation treatment of acne, plantar wart, eczema [and] superfluous hair." Examining 165 such cases from their personal files and the records of Massachusetts General Hospital, the doctors starkly document the dangers of unnecessary exposure to irradiation. Items...
...increasing problem," warn the doctors, "since twice the number were observed at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the decade 1948 to 1957 as in the preceding decade." But the worst may be yet to come. No one knows how many healthy people with histories of such treatment may later develop malignancies. The interval for the appearance of cancer after treatment ranged in the study from five to 55 years...