Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wisconsin Professor William Ellery Leonard, 58, poet, author (Two Lives, The Locomotive God); in Madison, Wis. Died. Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, 29, star goaltender for the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, three times winner of the Georges Vezina trophy for the leading goaltender of the National League; of a tumor of the brain; in Winnipeg...
...furiously. Acute cases die within three months whereas the chronic forms last from six months to four or five years. Sunlight, x-ray treatments, arsenic dosage may prolong the leucemic's life. Cause of the disease is undetermined. Some physicians think that it is the result of a tumor in the marrow. Leucemia is by no means rare. During 1932 it took 2,794 lives in the U. S. That was more than the deaths from scarlet fever, erysipelas or any form of tuberculosis, except pulmonary. More than half of 1932's leucemia victims were past...
Even further removed from possible practical application were the researches which famed Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, reported to the American Association for Cancer Research in Toronto last week. First, by proxy, he upset the theory that tissue grafts of Rous sarcoma, a transplantable animal tumor, continue to grow and spread in their new host. Instead, the transplanted tumor, he had found, disintegrates, starts a new tumor growing around it. Later Dr. Banting himself stood up to tell the cancermen a story of his four fruitless years of trying to make chickens immune to Rous sarcoma...
...Mayo Brothers clinic in Rochester, Minn. Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, 55, personal physician to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, was recuperating after removal of a kidney tumor. At his bedside was his good friend Bernard Mannes Baruch...