Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Warren Giles, 82, longtime president of baseball's National League; of cancer; in Cincinnati. General Manager...
...found in Chad's blood early in 1978, Mrs. Green reluctantly admitted that she had not been giving Chad his pills. "Chemotherapy doesn't cure," said Diana Green in desperation. Instead, the parents had been giving the boy Laetrile, a drug which is illegal for use in cancer treatment in Massachusetts, and which repeated medical studies have found useless for that purpose...
...Greens asked the state courts for permission to give their son Laetrile as well, it was denied. Last month the Greens fled to Tijuana with Chad, placing him in a clinic headed by Dr. Ernesto Contreras, who advocates Laetrile for its psychological benefits, rather than as a cure for cancer...
Estrogen is widely used to treat menopause. However, the use of estrogen has declined since studies first reported the high probability of a link between the hormone and uterine cancer...
...Hershel Jick of Boston University, who headed the research team, said yesterday there has been an epidemic of uterine cancer in the United States since the mid '60s. The number of cases has recently declined, he added...