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Harelips and cleft palates, in one form or another, afflict one in about every 750 newborn children, or 5,000 a year in the U.S. alone. That they develop early in fetal life is clear, but beyond that no one knows the exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper...
...latest round of fighting had been sparked by the discovery of the mutilated body of a Moslem cab driver, killed in the previous week's battles. Mortars, rockets and machine guns exploded in one of the noisiest and most prolonged cannonades yet to afflict Beirut. An estimated 150 died and 450 lay wounded. As armed bands disrupted the city, Beirutis had to deal with so-called flying roadblocks that were set up and later torn down in hit-and-run fashion...
This open attitude is one of the greatest advances made in the past 20 years in the fight against breast cancer. The disease will afflict some 90,000 American women and kill another 30,000 this year. But recent studies reinforce the doctors' insistence that early diagnosis can reduce both its fatality rate and the trauma of its treatment. The experience of survivors proves that most of those who develop the disease can learn to live with its aftereffects...
...hundreds of malignancies that afflict the human race, cancer of the female breast is perhaps the most widely feared. In the U.S. alone, 90,000 new cases will be diagnosed this year and 33,000 women will die of the disease. The American Cancer Society estimates that 1 woman out of every 15 will develop it. But although doctors still argue over the best ways of detecting and treating breast cancer, the statistics are not all unfavorable: of patients whose disease is detected as early as was Betty Ford's and who undergo such prompt surgery, as many...
...various types of cancer that afflict children, few are more fearsome than osteogenic sarcoma, a tumor that originates in the bone and spreads rapidly. By the time doctors can tell that the pain in a youngster's arm or leg is the product of such a tumor, the odds are strong that microscopic clusters of malignant cells have already reached the lungs. Removing the primary tumor by amputation saves the patient from early death. But in 80% of the 150 cases of this cancer reported among patients under age 15 in the U.S. annually, a secondary tumor appears...