Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astor", a full-blooded Belgian shepherd, died last week. An autopsy proved he had succumbed to gall stones and a tumor. His only falling was that in his old age he became "unhousebroken...
...Young's patient, now a college senior, functions normally. Other patients of Dr. Young were apparent hermaphrodites whom he made into sexually functioning men or women according to the dominance of male or female hormones. One girl "only shaves once a week" since Dr. Young removed a virilifying tumor from one of her ovaries. Another case was the rejuvenation (for two years) of a 48-year-oldster, achieved by castrating a Maryland criminal the instant he was certified dead by hanging: mincing and transplanting his glands...
...Chicago Dr. Slye tartly said she could not be bothered with Dr. Little's project simply because "the non-tumor strains with which this preliminary work was done, and which I expanded for this experiment, are now no longer in existence...
Diagnosis of a full-blown cancer is easy. Diagnosis of an early, curable one may be difficult. It depends upon study of a sample of tissue cut from a living tumor under suspicion. Said Pundit Ewing: "Accurate tumor diagnosis requires a life-long experience and a special training. Not every diagnostic laboratory is equipped to give this service. The State of New York requires a difficult practical examination of all pathologists who undertake to diagnose cancer and wish to be eligible for appointment in any of the many laboratories controlled by the State. It would be well if other states...
Treatment of cancer is positive and often curative in cases of cancers which can be reached without cutting the patient open. Thus the rate of cure is comparatively high for cancers of the skin, breast, uterus. From those sites the surgeon usually can excise the offensive tumor or the radiologist can shrivel it with x-ray or radium. The great difficulty with cancers of internal organs is that they seldom warn the victim of their presence until it is too late to get rid of them. Nonetheless, surgeons can save the lives of an appreciable number of victims. Radiologists, guided...