Word: tumorous
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...former president of American International Pictures, which during the '50s and '60s earned healthy profits and abusive reviews with such mindless, minibudgeted films for the adolescent drive-in set as I Was a Teenage Werewolf and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini; following surgery for a brain tumor; in Los Angeles...
BURKITT'S LYMPHOMA is a tumor originating in the lymph glands that may affect the jaw, eyes and other parts of the body; it is especially prevalent in African children. Awards were given to Dr. Denis Burkitt of Britain's Medical Research Council, who first identified the tumor, and Dr. Joseph Burchenal of Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who recognized its potential as a target for chemotherapy. Another recipient was Dr. John Ziegler of NCI who has achieved disease-free survival for up to ten years in 67% of more than 150 patients treated...
...deaths, was invariably fatal before chemotherapy was introduced in 1947. Now at least 25% of all children with the disease can expect to live at least five years. Credited with this achievement were Drs. Emil Frei III of Harvard Medical School, Emil Freireich of the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at the University of Texas, James Holland of Roswell Park and Donald Pinkel of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...
...haired moppet singing the Good Ship Lollipop; but Shirley Temple Black, now 44 and the mother of three children, has devoted her recent years to public affairs-as a congressional candidate, U.N. delegate and special assistant on the President's Council on Environmental Quality. Stricken with a breast tumor, Shirley not only underwent a mastectomy but publicly announced the operation so "that women will not be afraid to go to their doctors for diagnosis when they have unusual symptoms." Doctors reported that they had removed all malignancy, and Shirley declared: "I am grateful to God, my family...
Based on a study of white patients diagnosed between 1940 and 1969 in 100 hospitals throughout the country, the 217-page report contains bad news for victims of lung and pancreatic tumors. Lung cancer remains the most common type of the disease among men; the survival rate is poor and the incidence of the ailment is increasing. Life expectancy for patients with pancreatic cancers has shown almost no improvement, and this kind of tumor is becoming more common...