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Smokers are much more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers - that has been a scientific truism for decades. But what about the 80% of smokers who don't develop lung cancer? Are they just the lucky ones? A trio of new studies suggests that the explanation for why they escape the disease may lie partly in their genes...
Three new reports by research teams in the U.S., Europe and Iceland have identified, for the first time, specific gene variants that appear to make some smokers and former smokers more susceptible than others to cancer. The two variants - or differences in a single nucleotide - exist in about 34% of the population and occur in genes in the same region of the long arm of chromosome 15. Those genes code for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, cell-surface proteins that selectively bind to nicotine molecules. Once nicotine attaches to these receptors, a series of changes in the cells is triggered...
...astronautics, but much of his fascination for outer space was inherited: in 1960 his father George Low was a member of the NASA team that first suggested to then President John F. Kennedy the possibility of putting a man on the moon within 10 years. Low died of colon cancer...
...Chicken, which ended in bankruptcy. Yet whatever his success, he wasn't shy about public displays of wealth, indulging in over-the-top Christmas-light displays and Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces--though he generated less fanfare about his local philanthropy. He died of a rare form of salivary-gland cancer...
...caves draw clients from professionals just wanting to chill out after a hard day at work to people with more serious ailments. Anna Wuszter, who has a rare bone cancer that has led to the removal of her lower jaw, has had 38 surgeries since 2006. But since sitting in Megi's for an hour at least twice a week for a year, she says, "I can sleep better. I don't have nightmares anymore. The doctors told me that the scars are healing better and faster...