Word: herger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treatment. One hopeful alternative to castration is injections of female sex hormones (plus an operation on the prostate, if necessary). Like castration, female hormones seem to slow down the growth of cancer cells. Drs. Charles Cornell Herger and Hans Richard Sauer recently reported in the American Journal of Surgery that 30% of their patients getting stilbestrol (a female sex hormone) "responded with regression or softening of the prostate...
...castration argument is not over. Many doctors are castration zealots. Others, like Dr. Kretschmer, are dead set against it. Drs. Herger and Sauer take the middle ground: they do not invariably castrate all prostatic-cancer patients, but recommend castration 1) for patients who do not respond to female sex hormones, 2) to prolong and ease the lives of men whose cancers have become widespread...