Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until survivor Lance Armstrong triumphed in this summer's Tour de France bicycle race, testicular cancer didn't get a lot of press. One likely reason is that men hate to think about a malignancy in that vital and exceedingly sensitive part of the body. The treatment--surgical removal of the testicle--is even worse to contemplate. But another reason is that testicular cancer is relatively rare: only 7,400 cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. next year, representing 1% of new male cancers. Prostate cancer is 30 times as common...
DIED. KIM PERROT, 32, popular point guard who led the Houston Comets to two WNBA championships; of lung cancer; in Houston. Described as the heart and soul of the team, Perrot gave effusive motivational talks, often to kids, throughout her illness...
...reduce the risk of spinal fracture by 50% with the drug raloxifene--one of the new alternatives to bone-building estrogen being prescribed to postmenopausal women. Not bad, considering that two months ago data suggested a remarkable side benefit to raloxifene: the drug may lower the risk of breast cancer as much...
DIED. LANE KIRKLAND, 77, president of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995; of lung cancer; in Washington. As head of the federation, Kirkland fought to sustain the unions' waning power, in part by bringing renegades such as the U.A.W. and the Teamsters back into the fold. "All sinners belong in the church," he said...
...EMPTIVE STRIKE It's a cruel but common outcome: a patient with lung cancer appears to be in complete remission, but then dies when the disease spreads to the brain. Prophylactic radiation of the skull has been used for years in hopes of preventing or delaying the onset of brain tumors, but its effectiveness was uncertain. A new analysis concludes that the therapy does bestow a small but significant survival advantage...