Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second time in about a month, Philip Morris was socked with a big jury verdict on Tuesday when an Oregon jury in Portland awarded a record $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades. The decision comes on top of the $51.5 million awarded against the company in February to a smoker with inoperable lung cancer. "This is not good news for tobacco," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "The Oregon case is the kind of case that anyone could have brought." And that fact, perhaps more than...
...springboard for understanding what all the genes do. Only when the network of their interactions with one another has been mapped will enduring benefits follow: in the surer design of drugs, in the growth of replacement organs, in the early detection and treatment of many kinds of diseases, including cancer. Only then shall we understand the subtleties of human behavior and how human personality evolves in the course of early life by the interaction of genetic and environmental influences...
...Greek-American physician George Papanicolaou develops the Pap smear, a screening test for cervical and uterine cancer...
...American biochemist Linus Pauling touts vitamin C as a cure for everything from cancer to the common cold
...Robert Gallo, of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, and Luc Montagnier, of France's Pasteur Institute, each publish the genetic sequence of the AIDS virus. The two are identical...