Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's exactly what the Emperor was trying to do. The Emperor was trying to get rid of Vader, and Vader was trying to get rid of the Emperor. And that is the antithesis of a symbiotic relationship, in which if you do that, you become cancer, and you eventually kill the host, and everything dies...
...Medicine a couple of weeks ago. Turns out that this repeated acid bath can alter esophageal cells, creating a condition known as Barrett's esophagus. Once that happens, the cells can become precancerous, then malignant. For someone like me, with almost daily heartburn, the overall risk of esophageal cancer--one of the nastiest cancers--is a horrifying 43 times greater than average...
...Robert Meirowitz. Like many of his fellow gastroenterologists, Meirowitz has seen an upswing in patients since the journal article came out. Fortunately, he explains, GERD is usually not serious. Only about 5% of sufferers get Barrett's esophagus, and only 5% of those go on to develop cancer. However, as Dr. Joel Richter, head of gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic, points out, "The only way to be sure you don't have these conditions is to have an endoscopy...
...tube with a fiberoptic core--down my throat (not pleasant but, he assures me, not as awful as it sounds). If he sees Barrett's, he'll bring me back every year for another look and, if necessary, a biopsy. Under this sort of regimen, my chances of getting cancer will drop dramatically...
Rainwater fresh and palpable as crinoline, East of the Mountains tells the story of Ben Givens, a retired heart surgeon in Seattle who has recently lost his beloved wife of 50 years, Rachel, and has been told he has terminal cancer. Pragmatic to the core, he puts his dogs into his car, collects his father's gun and, on a rainy October morning, sets off toward central Washington to shoot himself. Almost instantly, though, he smashes his car and, surviving by a miracle, finds himself a scary-looking vagabond on the loose. All he has to sustain...