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...Duke went to see a doctor to get a mole removed. Routine tests confirmed that the mole was a malignant tumor - Duke had advanced-stage melanoma and was wheeled into surgery that week. A chunk of flesh from her right arm was removed, and a year of intensive cancer therapy followed. She survived without serious complications...
Duke thinks it was the years of regular tanning that caused her melanoma, and the vast majority of scientific literature supports her theory. Exposure to ultraviolet light, whether from the sun or a tanning bed, increases the risk of melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, and teenagers - especially pale-skinned redheads like Duke - are considered among the most vulnerable. In July the cancer-research wing of the World Health Organization (WHO) added tanning beds and sunlamps to its list of human-cancer-causing agents. "The risk of cutaneous melanoma is increased by 75% when use of tanning devices starts...
Optimism wasn't just a psycho-spiritual lifestyle option; by the mid-'00s it had become increasingly mandatory. Positive psychologists, inspired by a totally overoptimistic reading of the data, proclaimed that optimism lengthens the life span, ameliorates aging and cures cancer. In the past few years, some breast-cancer support groups have expelled members whose tumors metastasized, lest they bring the other members down. In the workplace, employers culled "negative" people, like those in the finance industry who had the temerity to suggest that their company's subprime exposure might be too high. No one dared be the bearer...
...from ready for public consumption, and researchers think that even if future trials confirm its utility, it may never reach the market. That's due in part to legal hurdles - drugmakers fear that patients who take an addiction drug, then later overdose or develop another ailment, like cancer, may lay blame on the vaccine. Addiction experts also caution that no drug-based addiction treatment is a panacea, and that behavior-based quit programs must play a role. "It's good that they're doing this research, but we need to temper our enthusiasm," says Carl Hart, associate professor of psychology...
...look at telomere biology, there has been three major discoveries beyond the fact that chromosomes are linear. Szostak made the first one,” said Stephen J. Elledge, an HMS professor of genetics who has researched on the link between telomeres and cancer suppression. “This prize should have been received a long time ago. Szostak’s prize is very important, and I’m glad that [the committee] got it right...