Sidney Farber , MD , on March 8 , 1951

Training Global Oncologists: Addressing the Global Cancer Control Problem

1 Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, New York University Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA 3 Department of Radiation Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA 4 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA 5 Depar...

Cancer: Where We Stand

News and Views Blood Club Third Annual Meeting Acth in Leukemia

The Blood Club held its third annual meeting at Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey on Sunday evening, April o, 1950 with about 300 participants. The program was devoted to a discussion of the effect of ACTH and cortisone on certain hematologic conditions, notably leukemia. Dr. Howard L. Alt, Chairman, introduced the principal speakers: Drs. George W. Thorn (Introduction), 0. H. Pearso...

Sonographically guided lumbar spine procedures.

Received March 22, 2013, from the Institute for Pain Diagnostics and Care, Ohio Valley General Hospital, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania USA (D.A.P.); and Center for Pain Medicine, Summa Western Reserve Hospital, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio USA (S.N.). Revision requested April 9, 2013. Revised manuscript accepted for publication May 8, 2013. We thank Heather Hoover, radiologic technologist, and Dana Dellap...

Observations on the effect of various folic acid antagonists on acute leukemia.

By SLOAN ,J. WILSON, Ml). T EMP( )HARY HF \IISSIONS have o(’curre(l in patients wit Ii acute letikemia following the administration of various folic a(’id antagonists. \Lessei’s(’hmi(!t’ has re(’ent.lv published an excellent review of the subject. Farber et 011. 2-4 statei! that about oO per cent of 60 (‘hildlren with acute leukemia t!’eated! with folic 0t(’id antagonists showed some degree of ...