Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happy hour for everyone. The risks of teetotaling are nothing compared with the dangers of too much alcohol, including high blood pressure, strokes and cirrhosis of the liver -- not to mention violent behavior and traffic accidents. Moreover, some studies suggest that even moderate drinking may increase the incidence of breast and colon cancer. Until there is evidence that the benefits of a daily dose of alcohol outweigh the risks, most people won't be able to take a doctor's prescription to the neighborhood bar or liquor store...
...seemed that taxol, a drug which would soon be used successfully to shrink ovarian and breast cancer tumors, was only found in the bark of the rare tree...
With the increased availability of taxol which the work of Jacobsen, Ojima and others might bring, many oncologists are using it to treat patients with ovarian and breast cancer...
...think it should be used as first line, but it is very expensive and supplies are limited," says Dr. Mussa Banisadre, medical director of the California Cancer Center. "Within the next few years we'll see taxol as a first-line treatment for breast cancer, but I don't think it will be used as a first-line treatment for ovarian cancer...
Susan, 36, breast cancer spokeswoman