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Purpose of the grant: to start 1,200 healthy women volunteers on a five-year course of free, thorough, semiannual pelvic examinations, to detect any signs of early cancer of the uterus...
Happy at having saved three lives, Dr. Macfarlane predicted that, if all women over 30 would follow the example of the 1,200 volunteers and demand complete periodic pelvic examinations, the "appalling death rate" (15,000) from cancer of the uterus would be greatly lowered...
...group is immune from some type of cancer. Newborn or very young children may have cancer of the kidneys or brain. Adolescents may have cancer of the bones or connective tissue, especially in the legs and arms. Cancer of the uterus or breast occurs in women at menopause, but cancer of the stomach or intestine rarely occurs in women under 50. Cancer of the prostate gland usually attacks only old men. Cancer of the skin may appear at any age, but most skin cancers are found in old persons...
Most famous of these is his direct heir, Thomas Stephen Cullen, author of several classic texts on gynecology. Easygoing Dr. Cullen is famous for his work on cancer of the uterus and diseases of the umbilicus. Drs. Kelly and Cullen have grown old together, and next week on November 19 the Hopkins staff will celebrate Dr. Cullen's 70th birthday. Any tribute to diplomatic, sociable Dr. Cullen can scarcely fail to be a tribute to Howard Atwood Kelly, so close has been their association for almost half a century. Hopkins men know that at the jolly, informal dinner...
...sits quietly on her haunches, takes no part in the affair. It is likely that many of the young, with little but instinct to guide them, miss the mother's pouch entirely. The number found there is al most always less than the number of embryos in the uterus shortly before birth...