Word: breasts
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...David Horrobin's disturbing suggestion, presented last week in Toronto at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is primarily based on his and others' studies with tissue cultures and laboratory rats. In one experiment, Horrobin injected breast tumors into 20 cancer-free rats; half were given a salt solution, and the rest received doses of Valium roughly comparable to high dosages given humans. After four weeks, the mammary tumors in the Valium-treated rats were three times the size of those in the control group...
Horrobin also points to a British study of women with breast cancer, some of whom had been using Valium or other drugs for anxiety or depression. At diagnosis their cancers were more advanced, and after treatment they tended to recur more quickly than in the unmedicated women. The investigator attributed the more rapid growth to anxiety, but Horrobin believes that the tranquilizer's physical effects might be to blame. This is particularly ominous, says Horrobin, because "after a diagnosis of cancer, tranquilizer use increases two or threefold." The researcher adds: "Since nobody has bothered to look at tranquilizer...
...Milne said yesterday stockpiles would be at most "in the tens or hundreds" of curies, and added that the shipments would arrive in specially lined lead boxes. "I would carry this material around in my breast procket," Milne said...
...look. Jerry Rubin, Yippie leader back in the '60s, turns up now on Wall Street as well-dressed broker. The designer Betsey Johnson, a woman who previously went around with her hair dyed pink or green and a lightning bolt tattooed above her left breast, is now being seen wearing a simple little black dress...
...Chappell, using the second 100 of this event to simulate the breaststroke portion of the 400-yd. individual medley, the time of 2:17.32 was more than adequate for his first 200 breast ever. By tuning up his breaststroke, the sophomore expects to improve his already tough...