Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other top performances, junior Mike Kiedel, a transfer from University of Florida, won the 200 free with a time of 1:40.08 and the 500 free with a time of 4:32.03. Senior Joshua Adams won the 200 breast-stroke with a time...
...Smoking is not generally linked to BREAST CANCER, but it may be a risk factor for some women. Half of all women carry an enzyme that breaks down tobacco carcinogens inefficiently. For them a pack a day may quadruple the risk of developing the cancer after menopause...
Cancer awareness has paid off as well. Patients are much more conscious today of cancer's early warning signs--and more likely to go in for regular Pap smears and prostate exams. Those tests, meanwhile, have become exquisitely sensitive. Breast cancers, for example, can now be spotted when they are only 2 cm in size, compared with 3 cm a few years ago. "The smaller the cancer," says Harmon Eyre, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, "the better the chances of survival...
...controversial review of previous data finds that an ABORTION may slightly raise a woman's risk of breast cancer. Early in pregnancy, breast cells grow rapidly, but by the third trimester, hormones kick in to tame them. Researchers suspect that after an abortion, the breast is left with cells that could grow out of control--and become cancerous...
DIED. MARJORIE SHOSTAK, 51, anthropologist who wrote about the !Kung San tribe in Africa's Kalahari Desert; of breast cancer; in Atlanta. Shostak lived with the tribe and mastered its difficult clicking language...