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...Breast cancer (which occurs in men as well as women) is often of a type which shows the converse: it is dependent on female hormones, and can be controlled when they are eliminated. This may be done for women by removing the ovaries or giving male hormones, in men by hormones alone...
Clinical Investigation, whose members are dubbed "the Young Turks" (TIME, May 19, 1952), bore directly on the current treatment of breast cancer...
Surgeons have been removing the ovaries of women with advanced cancer of the breast on the theory that the ovarian hormones (estrogens) favor the growth of the cancer. But Dr. Olof H. Pearson of Manhattan's Memorial Center found that this surgery seemed to slow the spread of such cancers in only 30% to 50% of the cases. With two other doctors, he conducted a close study of cases to learn...
...eight strenuous days & nights, Communist Siqueiros turned out a 10-ft.-square mural hopefully calculated to stir up a lively religious row. Done with a luminous, three-dimensional effect, the painting shows Hidalgo before a Spanish firing squad, one bullet-riddled hand still clasped to his breast in the moment before a final volley cut him down. His accuser is a mitered Catholic archbishop, stiff-backed and sinister, holding a standard topped with a cross. Beneath is a Spanish crown and Siqueiros' own paraphrase of the death sentence: "Excommunication and death penalty for Miguel Hidalgo for professing and spreading...
...have been saved. Launching it's 1953 drive for $18 million, the society said that with present knowledge, cancer-cure rates can be increased thus: lung, 5% to 50%; rectum, 15% to 75%; mouth, 40% to 65%; skin, 85% to 95%; female reproductive system, from 30% to 80%; breast...