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...they have cancer of the bladder, a disease that strikes three times as many men as women. But if it is caught early enough-as it apparently was in Humphrey's case-the odds of beating it are better than even. Convinced that he had removed the entire tumor, a walnut-size growth at the base of the bladder, Humphrey's surgeon, Dr. Willet F. Whitmore, said confidently, "As far as we're concerned, the Senator is cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: H.H.H.'s Cystectomy | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

Died. Kermit Bloomgarden, 71, producer of such Broadway hits as The Music Man, The Diary of Anne Frank and Look Homeward, Angel; while suffering from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. Born in Brooklyn and trained as a C.P.A., Bloomgarden became a business manager for a producer, then started presenting plays on his own. His first success, in 1945, was Deep Are the Roots, a drama about racial conflict. The next year he presented Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest and, in 1949, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 4, 1976 | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

Until now, the 270,000 participants in the demonstration project-a joint effort of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society-automatically received annual mammograms, along with a manual examination of the breasts and thermograms (tumor-detecting heat pictures). But under the new policy, mammograms will be restricted, until further studies are completed, to women 50 and above-an age group known to have profited from them-and others who have a greater than ordinary risk of breast cancer: women who have a family history of the disease, have lumps or pains in their chests or have reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mammogram Moratorium | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...cases of lung cancer, the treatments produced extensive destruction of malignant cells and noticeably improved the condition of the patients; four of them are still alive. In one cancer victim with an abdominal tumor six inches in diameter, the growth was shrunk to only 1½ inches; five months after it was removed, there was no detectable regrowth. One of the most impressive cases involved a patient with a cancerous kidney. Except for a small portion that had apparently been missed by the radio field, the entire tumor was destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cooking Cancers | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Senator Hubert Humphrey, 64. Pinhead tumor of the urinary bladder in 1973 was treated with X rays, and follow-up examination in 1974 showed no signs of cancer. Since then, he "has remained in excellent health with no evidence of tumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Charting the Candidates | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

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