Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this the same California that has been sensitive to the risks from every kind of environmental threat? Three years ago, the state's voters approved Proposition 65, a law that mandates warning labels on any substance found to carry a 1-in-100,000 lifetime risk of causing cancer. As a result, cautionary notices now appear on gasoline pumps, in hardware and grocery stores and on the walls of Napa Valley wineries...
...program, run by the Eliot House Jimmy Fund, brought 25 nationally and internationally ranked skaters to Harvard to raise money for children's cancer research...
...mortality rate from lung cancer was higher than has been reported in any other study," said Talcott, who is a clinical associate at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition to cancer, the study showed that the exposure to crocidolite caused respiratory diseases, such as malignant mesothelioma and asbestosis...
...cyclosporine. The drug keeps their immune systems from attacking and rejecting the foreign organs. But it is not perfect. Some 70% of patients getting a new liver, for example, still suffer rejection episodes. And many organ recipients face life- threatening side effects from cyclosporine, including an increased risk of cancer and heart disease...
Eight new laureates are honored for their work in econometrics, the genetic basis of cancer, the inner workings of cells, and precise measurements of time...