Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council also declared March 20-26 as Daffodil Days in support of the American Cancer Society...
Likewise, American horror movies like The Fly often include gruesome human mutations, King said. "It's not just a coincidence that this comes out at a time when American are conscious about cancer...
Hirohito, who died of cancer January 7 at age 87, was emperor during the rise of Japanese militarism, the country's defeat in World War II and its post-war transformation into one of the world's leading economic powers...
This limited test is only the beginning. The NIH researchers and others elsewhere are planning to transplant genes that could actually help people fight cancer and other diseases. For example, scientists hope to give patients genes that will enable their bodies to mass-produce such anticancer agents as interleukin-2 and tumor necrosis factor. Anderson believes the day is not far off when it will be possible to transplant a gene containing instructions for the manufacture of CD4, a substance that combats the AIDS virus. Ultimately, researchers think they may be able to conquer some hereditary diseases by replacing defective...
...Baker first met in Houston more than 30 years ago. They were a fairly successful tennis duo at the posh Houston Country Club, and when Bush ran unsuccessfully for Congress, Baker's first wife, Mary Stuart, was an around-the-clock volunteer. Later, when Mary Stuart lay dying of cancer in 1970, George and Barbara Bush spent hours at the hospital. Says Vic Gold: "There is just no way to exaggerate the bond created during a crisis like that...