Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medicine puts it more bluntly: "Retin-A won't do much for a prune." Indeed, some physicians wonder about the popularity of the drug at all. "The only thing I see Retin-A doing is irritating the skin and increasing the susceptibility to sun damage and thus to skin cancer," says Dr. Carl Korn of the University of Southern California Medical School. "To my eye, using four-times magnification, the effect is less than dramatic," notes Dermatologist Gabe Mirkin of Silver Spring, Md. "And on patients over 55, because the deep wrinkles so predominate, it's just not worthwhile...
...There he wrote more than 20 books, including seven novels, four plays and five collections that contain some lastingly important essays. He defined and demonstrated in a new way what it meant to be black, and to be white as well. And when he died last week of stomach cancer at his home in St.-Paul-de- Vence, he died covered with honors. "It's a love affair," he said on being made a commander in France's Legion of Honor in 1986. "This is the place where I grew up, insofar as you can ever say you grow...
...always a danger of quackery in such unorthodox approaches, as orthodox doctors repeatedly warn. But some New Age healers have perfectly standard medical training. Bernie Siegel, for example, is a surgeon who teaches at Yale and has written a new best seller, Love, Medicine & Miracles. After years of treating cancer patients, he believes "all disease is ultimately related to a lack of love, or to love that is only conditional, for the exhaustion of the immune system thus created leads to physical vulnerability." Dolores Krieger, an R.N. and a Ph.D., teaches the art of therapeutic touch to nurses...
Another practitioner is a slight, intelligent, no-nonsense woman of 63, who treats ailments as varied as cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis in a cluttered studio apartment in Manhattan. A onetime bacteriologist, she had no psychic experiences until after the death of her husband, when she began hearing voices and seeing visions and "thought I was losing my mind." When she began to study these phenomena, she became convinced that unseen doctors were working through her. "I am not a mystical person," she says, "but I have learned to accept many, many things. I know my doctors are geniuses...
...idea of successional complexity -- plant and animal vigor, variety, and regeneration -- we're just as pleased to find that same quality among ourselves. In a get-to-know-one-anot her session, Juan Davis, a cherubic ranch manager from West Texas, reveals that a bout with childhood cancer made him aspire to be the best at his work. John Nino, the great-grandson of Italian immigrants to central California, runs a large Brahman cattle ranch by himself and for fun ropes four nights a week. Mohammed Talbi, a Tunisian villager educated in France, works for the Arid Land Institute...