Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take, especially with patients who are too young to have developed any sexual identity. Now a sophisticated new test is available to help doctors make that crucial decision. In using the technique, devised by Immunologists Stephen Wachtel, Gloria Koo and their colleagues at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, doctors ignore external sexual features. Instead, they investigate the basic arbiters of sexual identity, the chromosomes...
...antigen. The assay turned out positive, and subsequent surgery revealed the reason: she was a hermaphrodite, with dual sexual organs-an ovary on one side and a combination of ovary and testis on the other. The doctors promptly removed the ovotestis, thereby reducing the danger of cancer and ensuring that she would be an unambiguous female...
...organization also argues that excessive amounts of fluoride in drinking water may be carcinogenic. Dyer cited a 1975 study by Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, science director of the National Health Federation (NHF), another anti-fluoridation group, based in California. That study indicated that during a 20-year period cancer death rates in ten large fluoridated cities surpassed those in comparably sized non-fluoridated cities...
...National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C. has repeatedly refuted the NHF study, showing that it is statistically unsound and unscientific. More than ten separate government studies have shown conclusively that there is no link between fluoridation and cancer, Dr. William Bock, chief of Dental Disease Prevention Activity at the Atlanta Center for Disease Control, says...
DIED. Allen Lockerman, 70, former FBI special agent who took part in the slaying of Bank Robber John Dillinger; of cancer; in Atlanta. Lockerman, an agent at the bureau's Chicago office during the 1930s, also worked on the cases of such celebrated gangsters as Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and Pretty Boy Floyd...