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Nothing sounds - or tastes - better than the idea of eating your way out of cancer. So it's disappointing news indeed that the Food and Drug Administration has deemed that tomatoes, so rich in antioxidants and other good things such as beta carotene, may not protect against many types of cancer after all, as some earlier studies had found...
...including H.J. Heinz Co., which planned to tout the anticancer benefits of tomatoes on their product labels. After a review of dozens of studies, however, the FDA found that there was "very limited evidence" to support any association between tomato consumption and reduced risks of prostate, gastric and pancreatic cancers. As for the believed cancer-fighting effects of lycopene, the key anti-cancer fighting ingredient in tomatoes, the FDA was even more discouraging, saying there was "no credible evidence" to suggest that the chemical could reduce the risk of such cancers of the prostate, lung, colon, breast, ovaries or pancreas...
...mostly a one-woman play about an academic who is dying of cancer, and in the end there's a controversy about the character being on life support or if they're supposed to die," Larkspur said. "Corinne was very strongly affected by it, because she was intending to be an academic, like the woman in the play. In a weird way, it reflected her death...
After spending much of the spring in the hospital battling complications from prostate cancer, former Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Jeremy R. Knowles has returned home...
...year ago, the 34-year Harvard veteran, who led the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 2001, agreed to head the school on an interim basis while undergoing a private battle with prostate cancer...