Medicine: Cancer Week

Home from the International Cancer Congress in Madrid Dr. James Ewing, director of cancer research at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital and foremost U. S. cancer authority, found cancer patients and physicians still in a hubbub over the Press's garbling of a paper he had read to the Congress. In an effort to erase from public memory such headlines as CANCER CURE AIM IS CALLED ABSURD and SAYS NUDISM BREEDS CANCER, Dr. Ewing last week issued a statement on cancer for laymen. Excerpts :

"The statement that 'the idea of discovering a cure for cancer...

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