Word: cancerous
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...Duke went to see a doctor to get a mole removed. Routine tests confirmed that the mole was a malignant tumor - Duke had advanced-stage melanoma and was wheeled into surgery that week. A chunk of flesh from her right arm was removed, and a year of intensive cancer therapy followed. She survived without serious complications...
Optimism wasn't just a psycho-spiritual lifestyle option; by the mid-'00s it had become increasingly mandatory. Positive psychologists, inspired by a totally overoptimistic reading of the data, proclaimed that optimism lengthens the life span, ameliorates aging and cures cancer. In the past few years, some breast-cancer support groups have expelled members whose tumors metastasized, lest they bring the other members down. In the workplace, employers culled "negative" people, like those in the finance industry who had the temerity to suggest that their company's subprime exposure might be too high. No one dared be the bearer...
...from ready for public consumption, and researchers think that even if future trials confirm its utility, it may never reach the market. That's due in part to legal hurdles - drugmakers fear that patients who take an addiction drug, then later overdose or develop another ailment, like cancer, may lay blame on the vaccine. Addiction experts also caution that no drug-based addiction treatment is a panacea, and that behavior-based quit programs must play a role. "It's good that they're doing this research, but we need to temper our enthusiasm," says Carl Hart, associate professor of psychology...
...importance of telomeres in aging, cell death, cancer, and stem cells has since been proven many times in subsequent research across the scientific community...
...look at telomere biology, there has been three major discoveries beyond the fact that chromosomes are linear. Szostak made the first one,” said Stephen J. Elledge, an HMS professor of genetics who has researched on the link between telomeres and cancer suppression. “This prize should have been received a long time ago. Szostak’s prize is very important, and I’m glad that [the committee] got it right...