Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acomb accused Lord of harassing her during hertenancy and of evicting her while she was underchemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer."You helped make me home less for two months," sheshouted at Sullivan, who was also represented Lordin the eviction proceedings...
That was the message given yesterday to more than 100 Harvard students arrested during the first-ever Phillips Brooks House-sponsored Jail-a-Thon to benefit the American Cancer Society...
...themselves victim to arrest had to pay $10 bail to get out of jail or call family or friends to pledge the money for them. Jokesters who requested their friends' arrests also pitched in $1 to the charity for the service. All money raised will be donated to the Cancer Society, Nelson said...
...cases in young girls are especially worrisome. Some researchers suspect that because a teenager's cervix has more developing cells than an adult's, it is more vulnerable to HPV. At Children's Hospital in Boston about six teenagers a year must undergo surgery for cervical cancer, which in the past was extremely rare in the young...
Since there are no symptoms until cervical cancer is advanced, Pap smears are the only way to detect the malignancy early. Some gynecologists recommend the test every six months for women with more than one sexual partner, and more frequently for those who have had warts. Even when the warts disappear spontaneously or are medically removed, the underlying viral infection -- and therefore the risk of cancer -- may persist. Hoping to reduce that risk, doctors are testing the antiviral substance interferon in adults with severe warts, and efforts to produce a vaccine are also under way. But no solution is close...