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...trooped in for examinations and checkups. All were boys & girls for whom, until about five years ago, medical science could offer little or no comfort. They were victims of generalized cancers such as leukemia (in the blood stream) or the spreading type of Hodgkin's disease (in the lymph nodes). Now there is at least good reason for hoping that their lives can be made both brighter and longer...
...collagen diseases" (involving the connective tissues) are most responsive. Rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever, which first put ACTH in the headlines (TIME, May 2), are placed in this group by many authorities. Several others follow the same pattern of quick relief, quick relapse when treatment is stopped.¶ Swollen lymph glands and nodes shrink visibly; even lymphatic leukemia (blood cancer) is slowed for a while...
...Roger A. Harvey, in charge of Hotchkiss' treatment, will not say that the patient has been cured until five years have passed without a recurrence of the growth. But no similar deep-seated growth, beginning to spread to the lymph glands, has ever before yielded so dramatically to any nonsurgical type of treatment...
...betatron's first patient, who is 72, had cancer of the larynx, rooted about an inch beneath the skin. It was bigger than a golf ball and was spreading to the lymph glands in his neck. He had spent hours at a time racked by uncontrollable coughing. His sense of taste was gone. And he was losing weight. The cancer was too far advanced to be operated on. Unchecked, it would grow until it killed him by strangulation...
...great open spaces, has a zooful of rodents which have become infested with rat fleas, among them prairie dogs, picket-pin gophers, ground squirrels, chipmunks. The Public Health Service called the disease "sylvatic (woodland) plague." It is still bubonic, in the sense that it can cause swelling of the lymph glands of the armpit or groin, but it has become so rare that the word plague could well be dropped...