Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors do not know the cause of cancer, nor can they prevent a tumor from spreading and migrating. Their only hope, in treating the disease, is to catch a malignant tumor early, burn it with X-ray or cut it out. Last week, in the Archives of Surgery, Dr. Frederick Madison Allen of Manhattan's Polyclinic Hospital suggested a new way of killing cancers: suffocation...
...Allen next tried choking off a human tumor. For his subject he chose a 76-year-old man with a large funguslike growth on his cheek, just in front of his ear. Working with Dr. Allen, Surgeon Robert Emery Brennan gave the patient a local anesthetic, punctured the skin around the margin of the tumor, passed rubber ligatures through these openings and tied off the arteries that supplied the tumor with blood. After an hour and a half, when the tumor had darkened slightly, the ligatures were untied...
Four days later Dr. Brennan "burrowed deeply" under the tumor, tied off the arteries again, deprived the tumor of nourishment for three and a quarter hours. Shortly afterward the tumor began to slough off. Normal tissues surrounding the growth, which also had their blood supply cut off, were not injured...
...strong smell, said he, Congo natives made ideal patients. They endured pain "without a murmur," were "obedient," had "a strange resistance to post-operative infection even in the absence of ... ordinary sanitary precautions," were delighted with any operative results, no matter how gruesome. A man with a balloon-like tumor of the upper jaw had a large wedge of bone cut out. He called for a mirror and "spent most of the day admiring himself...
Water for Cancer. X-rays wreak their destruction on cancer cells more effectively if water is injected into the tumor. For that reason, and because of new experiments with synthetic radioactive substances in solution, doctors would like to have a good method of injecting liquids. Hypodermic needles have not been entirely satisfactory. Dr. Gioacchino Failla, physicist of New York City's Memorial Hospital, announced a new method of getting fluids into cancers located near the body surface. The fluid is shot in a tiny, powerful jet from a diamond (to prevent rapid wearing away) orifice two-thousandths...