Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outgrowth of a three-month fight by Westchester County doctors, lawyers and welfare workers to gain custody of two-year-old Helen Vasko long enough for surgeons to remove the child's left eye. Last January in Grasslands Hospital it was discovered that she had a malignant tumor on the retina, that she would die as soon as the growth reached her brain, perhaps within a month...
...bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever it is that is being operated on. The next morning she will hand over to the surgeon for his hospital files accurately colored drawings of infected areas that could not easily be photographed, before and after the operation, with additional diagrams showing various steps in the operation, stitching, drainage...
Died. Senora Leonor Llorente Calles. 27, second wife of Mexico's political boss and onetime President. General Plutarco Elias Calles; of a brain tumor; in Mexico City. Last June General Calles took his wife to Boston for a brain operation by famed Dr. Harvey Gushing who operated but told General Calles the tumor was mortal. General Calles' first wife, Natalia Chacon Calles, mother of nine, died in 1927 at Los Angeles whither Mexican law forbade Mexico's President to follow during his administration. The second wife, mother of two, singer, law & dentistry student, whom General Calles married...
Declared Dr. Wood: "Almost every known analine dye, many alkaloids, all metals, ground up tumor particles, filtrates from tumor cells, extracts from all the organs, serums from animals have been injected with cancer cells so as to produce an antibody. But all these have been tried and have failed with two exceptions." The exceptions: lead, which is dangerous; a powerful antiserum, which does not effect a tumor that has started to grow...
Despite disappointments certain advances have been made during the year in the treatment and alleviation of cancer. In Chicago Dr. Loyal Edward Davis of Northwestern University Medical School & Director Max Cutler of Michael Reese Hospital tumor clinic have been treating certain brain tumors by inserting radium needles into the diseased brain tissue itself. In Manhattan Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of the Neurological Institute & associates are saving nine out of ten of their brain tumor cases by early diagnosis and bold excision...