Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This "unique perch," as he dubbed it, prompted him to start writing--four years ago for The New Yorker and more recently in his book The Measure of Our Days-- about the emotionally-laden experiences of caring for patients with blood disease, cancer and HIV. These patients, nearing the end of life, arrive at provocative revelations that Groopman treasures...
Groopman discussed one of his patients, "Kirk," mentioned in the first chapter of his book. Kirk realized at the end of a battle with kidney cancer how unmeaningful his fast-paced, business-oriented life had been. Such epiphanies, Groopman said, are meaningful to the patient and his family...
...recent study by several researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital found that long-term multivitamin use may decrease colon cancer rates in women by up to 75 percent...
Lane's father taught her the nature lore, pointing out signs to the youngest of his seven children on the family farm where Lane still lives. Now Lane, 78 and frail with cancer, is passing on the knowledge to her daughter. This fall, while Lane monitored the foliage on Crab Orchard and Renegade mountains from her living-room window, Melinda Lane Hedgecoth ventured into the woods for her, reporting on how thick the fogs were, counting spider webs and spying on the hornets. She also wrote for her mother the annual fall column that Lane has written for the Crossville...
DIED. MARK BELANGER, 54, premier fielding shortstop of the 1970s who was a nimble barricade that no ball could pass; of lung cancer; in New York City. Nicknamed Blade, Belanger won eight Gold Gloves in 16 seasons with the Baltimore Orioles...