Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study reported in the February issue of The New England Journal of Medicine confirms the association between the use of estrogen and cancer of the uterus...
...Unlike the situation for smokers, where the risk of contracting lung cancer can remain for decades after one stops smoking, the risk of contracting endometrial cancer seems to decline rapidly after women stop taking estrogen,' Rothman, who collaborated on the research and writing of the article, said...
...incidence of cancer among women who do not use estrogen is less than one-tenth that of women who take estrogen, the article reports. The incidence of cancer among those who use estrogen is between 1 and 3 per cent...
Henderson said that after radical surgery, there is less chance of cancer reappearing on the patient's chest wall than after simple, less-disfiguring surgery, but radical surgery does not improve the survival rate because cancer has usually spread to other organs before it is detected in the breast...
They whirl around the discotheques, the baths, and the men's room at Grand Central Station, with their clear plastic belts and work boots and Technicolor T-shirts, till Sutherland overdoses and Malone disappears into Long Island Sound. Passion is a cancer; eros and thanatos, interwoven...