Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administrative tasks, his priorities will be pastoral. On a one-day trip from Washington to his new flock last week, he made a special effort in the midst of a hectic schedule to visit Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home, a nursing home for the free care of terminal cancer patients. "Once we put our trust in God when we didn't have a thing on earth," he reminds fellow blacks. "Now some of us have had achievements. But we can't forget the God who brings us salvation...
More than any other disease of women, breast cancer symbolizes pain, mutilation and death. The disease strikes 1 woman in 10 and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among females in the U.S., where it has the highest incidence in the world. This year 135,000 new cases will be diagnosed, and the disease will kill 42,000 women. Worse, its incidence is rising: last month the National Cancer Institute reported significant increases during both 1984 and 1985, the most recent period for which figures are available. Equally troubling, deaths from breast cancer among young and middle-aged...
...have finally contracted the virus simply because of repeated exposure, researchers doubt it. Had that been the case, the women who became infected should have been those who had had sex most often. But frequency of intercourse did not seem to matter. Says Researcher James Goedert of the National Cancer Institute: "The study demonstrates that the infected population gets more infectious as time passes, and that the level of risk increases as time goes on." That led Goedert and his colleagues to speculate that early treatment with AZT, the only approved anti-AIDS drug known to inhibit replication...
Scientists at the Harvard-affiliated Massachussets General Hospital (MGH) announced this week that they have pinpointed the gene that causes a form of kidney cancer...
Locating the gene that causes Von Hippel Lindau (VHL) disease--a rare form of kidney cancer--is the first step to understanding the causes of kidney cancer in general, said Bernd R. Seizinger the researcher who headed the international project. About 10 thousand Americans die from kidney cancer each year...