Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imminent hazard" law, which had never before been used, and banned the substance. Only last month, following another letter from Wolfe, Califano issued a sweeping warning about the dangers of DES, a drug once given to pregnant women to help prevent miscarriages that has since been shown to produce cancer or genital disorders in these women and their offspring...
...comedy film called Cold Turkey, an entire Iowa town tried to give up smoking for 30 days and actually succeeded. This week the American Cancer Society will try to do Hollywood one better. It is asking all U.S. cigarette users, some 50 million people, to stop smoking for one day, Thursday, Nov. 16. The long-range objective of the third annual Great American Smokeout is even more ambitious: permanent withdrawal. That is not entirely a pipedream. Of the estimated 5 million people who gave up smoking for a day last year, a follow-up study showed some half million were...
...A.C.S. last week backed its appeal with some pertinent statistics. In a 25-year overview of cancer mortality figures, it reported that cancer death rates seem to be leveling off and, for some forms of the disease, actually declining, as in the case of stomach cancer (down more than 60%), colon-rectum (down 5.6% for men, 22.5% for women) and uterine cancer (down 59.5%). But the death rate for lung cancer, which has been repeatedly linked to cigarette smoking, has grown by 200%. Cancer Society officials attribute at least part of that sharp rise to the great increase...
Despite the risks of cigarettes, many smokers seem all too willing to take the gamble. In a recent survey, the A.C.S. found that 52% of smokers believe they will get lung cancer. Even so, that fear did not make them kick the habit...
...very well be right; Joan disinherited both of her older children, leaving them out of an estate estimated at about $2 million. Chris and Christina are now challenging the will in court, claiming that their mother was a "habitual, heavy user of alcohol" who was confused by cancer when she wrote it. They further charge that their sister Cathy and her husband turned their mother against them...