Word: cancerous
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Brezhnev at 70 looks in robust health, negating rumors over the past three years that he was nearing the end of the road because of cancer or leukemia, gout or heart trouble. He has given up smoking at the insistence of his doctors. He puts in a busy schedule. His one concession to age is that he now wears a hearing aid in public. There is no indication that he plans to retire voluntarily, which would be an unprecedented action for the top Soviet leader...
Billiard Game. Betty S. has an inoperable malignant tumor of the esophagus. She is one of two dozen patients participating in a promising new program for fighting advanced cancer of the mouth, upper respiratory system, cervix, brain, pancreas and other areas that until recently have been virtually untreatable. Fermilab's weapon is a beam of high-energy neutrons produced by its linear accelerator. Directed against certain tumors, the neutrons can be more effective than the X rays normally used in cancer therapy. Their advantage lies in the combination of their mass (they are heavy by subatomic standards) and high...
...back as the 1930s, Dr. Robert Stone of the University of California at Berkeley used neutron irradiation against cancer. But Stone's tests so severely damaged healthy tissue that the treatment was not revived until the 1960s at London's Hammersmith Hospital. The British physicians not only aimed the neutrons more precisely, but also adjusted the dosage so as to hold down immediate side effects...
Initial Results. The director of Fermilab's neutron irradiation program, Dr. Lionel Cohen of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital, is encouraged by the initial results, but emphasizes that the use of the Fermilab accelerator for treating cancer is still highly experimental. No one can tell what, if any, long-term damage may result from the use of high-energy neutrons. Furthermore, neutron treatment is suitable for only a small fraction of cancer patients. Says Cohen: "Only 15% of patients now being treated with conventional radiation could benefit from neutron therapy. There has to be a localized cancer...
Died. Peter Lisagor, 61, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News and the best all-round newspaper correspondent in the nation's capital; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Born poor in West Virginia, Lisagor played semipro baseball to pay his way through the University of Michigan. He joined the Daily News in 1939 and was assigned to Washington eleven years later. His stories, columns, speeches and TV appearances on NBC's Meet the Press, Public Broadcasting's Washington Week in Review and other programs were marked by incisive perception, dry wit and uncommon warmth and humanity...