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Deaths from prostate cancer in Pennsylvania (9 P) Pages in category "Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania" The following 163 pages are in this category, out of 163 total.
1900 – Swedish Dr. Stenbeck cures a skin cancer with small doses of radiation [4]; 1920s – Dr. William B. Coley's immunotherapy treatment, regressed tumors in hundreds of cases, the success of Coley's Toxins attracted heavy resistance from his rival and supervisor, Dr. James Ewing, who was an ardent supporter of radiation therapy for cancer.
He specified the need for precise details on age, sex, race, and occupation, as well as standard terminology for diseases and cause of death. This law was passed in 1842 and was soon copied by most other states. [12] His proposals greatly expanded the questionnaires used in the Massachusetts state census of 1845.
The German professor Wilhelm Fabry believed that breast cancer was caused by a milk clot in a mammary duct. The Dutch professor Francois de la Boe Sylvius , a follower of Descartes , believed that all disease was the outcome of chemical processes, and that acidic lymph fluid was the cause of cancer.
In July 2009, Connecticut passed into law a plan called SustiNet, with the goal of achieving health care coverage of 98% of its residents by 2014. [160] The SustiNet law establishes a nine-member board to recommend to the legislature, by January 1, 2011, the details of and implementation process for a self-insured health care plan called SustiNet.
Pages in category "1920s deaths" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aleksey Afanas'ev; B.
He died of cancer in 1910. [13] Radiology memorial (Hamburg-St. Georg) Many of the early X-ray and radioactivity researchers went down in history as "martyrs for science." In her article, The Miracle and the Martyrs, Sarah Zobel of the University of Vermont tells of a 1920 banquet held to honor many of the pioneers of X-rays. Chicken was served ...
Around the start of the 1920s, new public health concerns were sparked by the deaths of factory workers at a radioluminescent watch factory. In 1932, a well-known industrialist, Eben Byers died of radiation poisoning from the use of Radithor, a radium water guaranteed by the manufacturer to contain 2 μCi of radium. [41]