Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ronald Reagan went into surgery for cancer of the colon, he assigned his powers temporarily to George Bush, who stayed home and did absolutely nothing notable for eight hours...
Redfield, who is one of the nation's most persistent advocates of widespread testing, said the latest findings show this is untrue. He believes doctors should routinely check for AIDS just as they do for cancer, heart disease' and other illnesses...
Billy died of pancreatic cancer, the same disease that claimed his father in 1953 and his sister Ruth in 1983. He was 51. The cancer and a year of experimental treatments had taken a fearful physical toll. But, having already overcome so much in his life, he retained his humor and irony almost...
...clown had ceased to be funny. He was successfully treated for alcoholism, moved out of Plains, took a job with a mobile-home company and tried to resume a normal life. Then came the cancer. In a sense, though, it wasn't his body that defeated him; it was the outside world. As Jimmy Carter wrote in his memoir, "He was the president's brother, and therefore fair game...
...hypocrisy in holding tobacco stocks comes up when one considers that numerous researchers and professors at the Medical School and School of Public Health have not only come out against smoking but continue to research the health hazards it causes and search for cures. Harvard even has an American Cancer Society professorship, funded by an organization that spends a great deal of time convincing others not to smoke...