Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes up 50%; the kidneys, up 58%; the stomach, up 61%; the prostate, UP 75%; the bladder, up 117%; liver and gall bladder, up 352%. Cancer at some such sites might have been caused either by direct action of substances in cigarette tar, or by spread from an undetected tumor in the lung. No relationship was found between smoking and leukemia, or cancer of the brain, colon or rectum...
Died. Percy Wyndham Lewis,* 72, irascible and erratic novelist, artist and critic-of-mankind; of a brain tumor; in London. A self-styled "Renaissance Man" and professional dissenter, Lewis launched a lifelong guerrilla warfare on convention in 1914 with Blast, a magazine (co-edited with Poet-Pundit Ezra Pound) which ferociously lit into the popular romanticism ("chaos of Enoch Ardens, laughing Jennys, ladies with pains, good-for-nothing Guineveres"). He introduced cubism to Britain, then characteristically turned on it fiercely when cubism became popular. In a series of novels written in prose as rough-edged as a raw nerve (Tarr...
...team who operated on President Eisenhower for ileitis, announced that 20 U.S. cancer surgeons will launch a two-year test: they will apply various chemicals, selected for trial by the National Cancer Institute, to the sites of cancer operations. Surgeons have long feared that when they cut around a tumor mass, they might release and spread cancerous cells; the chemicals will be studied to see whether they can check the spread, thus prevent recurrence of the disease...
CAMBRIDGE today is in the position of an advanced cancer victim. The tumor of juvenile delinquency has grown to dangerous size, and, unless it is reduced, may well spread disease to the healthier parts of the city. But the cure will be long and hard, perhaps next to impossible...
...scales 120 lbs. v. his normal 150); Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, 47, out of Bethesda Naval Hospital in time to attend the opening of Congress, recovered from further surgery on the site of an operation he underwent last summer for removal of a tumor in his right...