Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--Doctors told President and Nancy Reagan yesterday that the final tests from her breast cancer surgery show there has been no spread of her cancer and that the "prognosis for full recovery is excellent," a White House spokesman said...
...cancer was identified as a "non-invasive intraductal adenocarcinoma" which measured about 7 millimeters, in a statement issued by Reagan's personal physician, Dr. John E. Hutton...
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said it was a common form of breast cancer that had not spread through the tissues...
Physicians studying cancer, for example, have related the role of specific genes to tumor development in some cancers. Doctors can also use human genetic markers to test mothers for the possibility of giving birth to a seriously diseased child...
...center's work is in no way restricted to AIDS research, however. Hunt cites another project with implications for the care of delicate animals in captivity--an effort to determine why captive cotton-top tamarinds--an endangered species--often suffer from ulcerative colitis, a disease that can lead to cancer of the colon. The center has received an NIH grant to study this tendency in about 80 of the monkeys. He says it is not known whether this condition exists in the wild...