Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were particularly glad about the news on Wilms's tumor. Our daughter had lung surgery at Children's Hospital, Boston, for this difficulty when she was 21. She is now nearly twelve, and we will always feel that she owes her life to the wonderful work of Dr. Farber and other dedicated men of research who have spent countless hours in the study of these problems...
...Wilms's tumor, a cancer that attacks the kidneys of children and is often fatal, is yielding to new treatment. Reporting at the Cancer Society seminar, Dr. Sidney Farber of Children's Hospital in Boston said that radiotherapy and surgery had previously been effective in 40% of cases, but in the other 60% death usually resulted because the malignancy spread to the lungs. Now an antibiotic (Actinomycin D) has been brought into the battle and, combined with surgery and radiotherapy, the drug has raised the apparent survival rate...
...reputation. It tells of a dreadful day in the dreadful life of Jake Jackson, a faceless phantom of insulted life from Chicago's black ghetto. Greedy, but with never enough ham hocks and collard greens, lecherous, but always frustrated, aggressive, but always a victim (even to his beaten, tumor-plagued wife, who cuts him up bad at the end of a long, long day), Jake is no left-wing stereotype of a good man. He and society match each other in crude nastiness. The Depression and the code of "The Man" (meaning the white man) press down...
...blood pressure (170 over 100) was accompanied by unusual features. She had muscular weakness and cramps, had to drink and urinate frequently; her low-salt sweat and abysmally low level of potassium in the blood indicated an excess of aldosterone. A medical team traced her trouble to a small tumor on her right adrenal gland, which was pumping out a flood of aldosterone although there was no excess of other adrenal hormones. Surgeons removed her tumor, and now, eight years later, the woman is well, with her blood pressure about normal...
...blood pressure develop an aldosterone excess apparently as an effect, rather than a cause, of their original disease. But whatever the statistics, the volunteers who pedaled themselves silly on Dr. Conn's exercise bicycles have a good deal to show for their sweat. At least 70% of aldosterone-tumor patients are being cured by surgery, and of the 25% listed only as improved, some are expected to move into the cured column when their convalescence is complete...