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Even further removed from possible practical application were the researches which famed Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, reported to the American Association for Cancer Research in Toronto last week. First, by proxy, he upset the theory that tissue grafts of Rous sarcoma, a transplantable animal tumor, continue to grow and spread in their new host. Instead, the transplanted tumor, he had found, disintegrates, starts a new tumor growing around it. Later Dr. Banting himself stood up to tell the cancermen a story of his four fruitless years of trying to make chickens immune to Rous sarcoma...
...Mayo Brothers clinic in Rochester, Minn. Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, 55, personal physician to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, was recuperating after removal of a kidney tumor. At his bedside was his good friend Bernard Mannes Baruch...
Medical Economics, "business magazine of the medical profession," last week tried to answer the doctor's perpetual question: How much shall I charge? In different communities, surgeons charge from $100 to $5,000 to remove a tumor from the bladder, $50 to $2,000 to repair a fractured skull. Removal of an appendix costs $150 to $250 in some Western communities, from $250 to $1,000 in Eastern cities. Office call charges average $2. But some doctors take as little as 50?. some as high as $15. Doctors, to avoid competition, look to their county medical societies...
...want to congratulate TIME'S editor on its section on Medicine. Statements are always brief and nearly always correct. The issue of July 3 contained much information regarding the ductless glands, nearly all correct, but parathyroid tumors are accompanied by an increase in the parathyroid hormone which abstracts calcium from the bones and so leads to softening and cyst formation. Removing the tumor reduces the amount of parathyroid hormone and allows the bones to regain calcium...
...arthritis, although its main influence is in a general weakening of the bones without localizing the trouble. Disease of the pancreas or of the adrenals may also affect the bones. They mentioned a man who broke a leg while sneezing. Autopsy showed a diseased pancreas and a parathyroid tumor...