Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Decent, humane places for the terminally ill could have been provided decades ago with some of the millions the Cancer Foundation has wheedled out of a considerable number of desperate relatives of these martyrs...
...Billie Jean King. "A woman's ovaries sit inside a great big sac of fluid-beautifully protected." A woman's breasts are also not easily damaged. Scotching an old myth, Marshall says: "There's no evidence that trauma to the breasts is a precursor of cancer...
Predicting which drugs will work on cancer patients...
Doctors play a guessing game about which drugs to use in combatting cancer. One problem is human individuality-what helps one person may fail to help another. In the search for the proper medicine, doctors must often subject a patient to a sequence of powerful drugs, many of which turn out to be ineffective against the malignant cells. Now a simple technique promises a means of testing the effectiveness of drugs in a specific case of cancer-without having to administer them to the patient...
...team of researchers at the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine that cells from a patient's cancer can be grown, or cultured, in the laboratory and tested there to determine which drugs work...