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Word: woglom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treatment for pernicious anemia) may arouse cancer or stimulate existing cancer. The idea seems to have sprung from research which found that experimental cancers grew faster in liver-fed mice and rats than in rats and mice fed on fresh uncooked muscle, vegetables, wheat or meat. Dr. William Hewy Woglom of Columbia University sought to check this research. He liver-fed seven dozen rats diseased with four kinds of cancers, concluded: "Uncooked beef liver . . . had no demonstrable effect upon the growth of any of these four tumor strains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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