Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Henry Bernstein, 77. hot-tempered French dramatist (he fought twelve duels), best-known for his violently pessimistic plays dealing with thwarted passion (Le Secret, Mélo, Espoir): after a brain tumor operation; in Paris...
...laymen his disease was "cancer." To specialists, this means carcinoma, which is only one type of malignant tumor. Others: sarcoma, lymphosarcoma, myeloma...
...Margaret and Mary Gibb, 41-year-old twins joined at the base of the spine, both had to be anesthetized at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital for famed Surgeon Frank Lahey to remove a fibrous tumor from Margaret's abdomen. After the two-hour operation, both sisters were reported doing fine...
...comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These are then cut out by standard surgery...
Four-fifths of his cases had been misdiagnosed or overlooked, said Dr. Suter, and he urged doctors to be on the watch for this complaint, because it is one of the few symptoms that may give a clue to the location of a brain tumor. But he had a hopeful note: anomic aphasia is much less common now that middle-ear infections are so readily controlled by sulfas and antibiotics. And anybody who fails to remember the name "anomic aphasia" for more than a few minutes need not worry about...