Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ultrasound clearly outlines the excess fluid (ascites) in the abdomen of patients with many types of disease. Glasgow's Dr. Ian Donald has perfected his technique to the point where he can distinguish between an abdomen with ascites caused by a benign tumor, and one with ascites caused by cancer...
...first screening procedure, the new technique has the great advantage of simplicity and painlessness. It may spare many patients the heroic procedure of having air injected into the brain cavities (ventriculogra-phy). Some British neurosurgeons report better than 90% accuracy for ultrasound in determining whether a brain tumor or a hemorrhage is present, and if so, where...
Slept like a tumor--arrested, of course, or no hope...
...grey-haired researcher continued: "Since at that time few scientists believed in the possibility of transmission of virus-caused avian tumors to any mammal, including man, I had worked for years without any special protection against the fowl-tumor virus, with my bare hands in contact with the blood and tumors of infected chickens and chick embryos almost daily. This could have amounted to a repeated inoculation with the virus, since there were usually cuts and scratches on my hands...
Since Dr. Davis developed cancer, other researchers have crossed the bird-mammal barrier and induced cancer in mice and monkeys with avian viruses. Dr. Davis may be the first identified human victim of a similar transfer. But it is not yet certain, because many tumor tissues look alike under the microscope. And Dr. Davis herself concedes: "Maybe it was just coincidence that I got this kind of cancer...