Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cancer...
...greatest controversy today concerns cancer of the cervix. Again the trouble is insufficient data. What is indisputable is that many, if not most, women on the Pill undergo cellular changes in the cervical region. The question is whether these are precancerous. Two researchers, Drs. Milliard Dubrow and Myron R. Melamed, conducted a three-year study of almost 35,000 women at Manhattan Planned Parenthood clinics. Their report has not been published, and may never be, because technical reviews of the study suggest that it was badly designed. But bits and pieces of the findings have been carefully leaked...
...forms, as sensible an opinion as any was expressed at last week's meeting of the College of Physicians by Dr. Ann Lawrence, a hormone specialist at the University of Chicago. She would not, she said, prescribe it for women with a family history of breast or cervical cancer, or the likelihood of clotting or circulatory problems, or diabetes. "I am one of what I would call the concerned physicians, simply pleading that the drug be used with a certain circumspection," said Dr. Lawrence. "But I wouldn't even try to deny that the Pill has been ? boon...
...footsteps, both as a General Motors executive and open-handed philanthropist; of heart failure after emergency surgery; in Manhattan. Kettering spent 23 years at G.M., contributed significantly to the development of the modern diesel locomotive. He retired in 1959, devoted himself to Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (cofounded by his father) and launched the Charles F. Kettering Memorial Hospital in Dayton, Ohio...
...than $75 million, has shriveled considerably, he still owns some $6,400,000 worth of Merritt-Chapman shares, a large horse-breeding farm near Ocala and an interest in a Jacksonville movie and television firm. Wolfson himself suffered a heart attack in 1966. His wife died last year of cancer. If both appeals fail, Wolfson still will have to serve a minimum of ten months...