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Patient Pierce was suffering from a breast cancer, and it was so far advanced that surgery was impossible. Memorial's doctors gave her drugs to ease the pain and hormones to slow the cancer's spread, thus prolonged the life they could not save. Week after week Miss Pierce went back for treatment. Once she told a clinic social worker: "I have never met with such kindness before in my life." It was plain to Memorial officials that Margaret Pierce could pay only nominal sums for her care; most of it was free. In a year she paid...
...Bombay, cancer of the mouth, esophagus and penis is commoner than in New York, but cancer of the stomach, womb, breast and skin is rarer than in either New York or London (though the overall incidence of cancer is about the same). Cancer types vary between sects: Parsee women have more than three times as much breast cancer as cancer of the mouth of the womb, but the opposite is true among Hindu women...
...will note the history of the increase of polio, and compare it to a graph showing the years when breast-feeding of infants was discredited and bottle-feeding widespread, you will be sure to see a striking coincidence. Is it not possible that an immunity, to a greater or less degree, might be given the baby in human milk which safeguards it from polio? Polio used to be a juvenile disease-perhaps it now strikes the adults who were bottle babies...
Salves for "curing" cancer of the breast have long been among the most infamous of quack nostrums. Last week a salve got a respectable introduction to some distinguished physicians. At the Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris, an earnest German scientist reported encouraging results in treating breast cancer with a salve containing a chemical derived from a common garden bulb...
Fifty patients with breast cancer had been treated for three to four weeks with a salve containing N-methyl-colchicamid, Dr. Lettré told the Paris gathering. In the confusion of postwar Germany he could not keep tabs on them well enough to be sure that any had been free of the disease for five years (the minimum acceptable for a cancer "cure"), but several whose cancers disappeared had been free for three years...