Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body and its rebel cells. But it is not a two, sided civil war, because the body has almost no defenses. The body creates no antibodies against cancer as it does against diphtheria or typhoid. It builds no tissue walls to confine the destructive cells. It feeds them well, allows them to grow unchecked, and dies helplessly when they disrupt some vital function...
...business of Sloan-Kettering Institute and all the other centers of cancer research, which are spending something like $50 million in the U.S. annually. At present the only known cure for cancer is destruction: the surgeon's knife or radiation (X rays and radium). Such methods work well with some forms of cancer. Skin cancer, for instance, can nearly always be removed so completely that it does not recur. Other accessible cancers can be dealt with too, and surgical methods are improving constantly. A recent advance saves many patients who have a vital artery that has been attacked...
...long ago, Memorial's doctors noticed that cancer patients, often reacted well after a serious operation, but died a few days later for no apparent reason. Sloan-Kettering's research men went to work to find an explanation, found that in such cases the patients had died because of a deficiency of potassium in the blood. When potassium was added in new cases, the patients picked up quickly and survived the operation. Dr. Rhoads believes that such improved surgery and treatment, combined with sufficiently early diagnosis, may save from cancer one-third to one-half of the people...
Finding of the well-preserved pieces of mammoth encourages scientists to hope that they will some day find the deep-frozen body of a prehistoric man. But prehistoric men were smarter than the mammoths they hunted, and maybe fewer of them fell into freezing bogs...
...well-timed strike for Milne, a balding, stooping, ex-insurance agent whose gold mining has not been as profitable as his selling of gold-mine shares. In 1947 the gold-mining companies he had promoted with Johannesburg's Norbert Erleigh were thrown into receivership (TIME, Nov. 24 and Dec. 15, 1947). Both Milne and Erleigh are under indictment on charges of fraud...