Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrators "are disappointed" by the House's action, an FDA aide, who asked not to be identified said yesterday. "Based on animal studies and scientific extrapolation from those studies, we think the likelihood is very high that additional cases of bladder cancer will result from this delay in the ban," he added...
FACT: One ounce of plutonium is potentially equivalent to 200 million lung cancer doses. Four tons of plutonium are already missing in the U.S. alone...
...which are ecologically dangerous and some of which, such as strontium-90 and cesium-131, will be a disposal problem for 600 to 1000 years. The most deadly emission, of course, is plutonium. Its lethality is such that one-millionth of a gram is sufficient to cause lung cancer--and a large reactor annually produces 400 pounds. Once produced it must be stored safely for 250,000 to 500,000 years...
Almost all the victims, including ten of those who died, had been seriously ill with other ailments even before they were stricken by the mysterious fever. Three had received kidney transplants and were hospitalized on the same surgical floor. Another was a longtime alcoholic. Several had cancer. Still others had chronic lung disease. Their ages ranged from 16 to the late 60s, but they all apparently shared one characteristic: either because of illness or medication, their immune systems were so weakened that they were especially vulnerable to infections...
...this latest film by Spanish director Carlos Saurus in the Boston Phoenix that makes it sound like far and away the most interesting new movie in town. Saurus portrays the hypocrisy of a philandering, insensitive military man and the despair of his young wife who is dying of cancer through the eyes of their aloof, perceptive and frighteningly critical young daughter, Ana. At the same time, he includes scenes that give a more objective, more compassionate view of the unhappy parents. The theme of the child's view of adulthood is one that has made for some remarkable films...