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...lungs of men and women differently. So far, there's been as much evidence against a sex bias as for one. But that may be starting to change. In the most compelling study on the topic to date, researchers determined that women are twice as vulnerable to lung cancer as men but, in a surprising twist, they die at half the rate...
...tumors in 113 of the men and 156 of the women. Then the researchers kept track of who lived and for how long, as well as the treatment participants were given. The study showed that both sexes tended to be in their late 60s when they received a lung-cancer diagnosis but that the women usually had smoked considerably less than the men. Still, at each stage of lung cancer, the women lived longer than...
There's one thing about which all investigators already agree: lung cancer is particularly deadly (85% of patients die within five years of their diagnosis) and almost entirely preventable (85% of people with lung cancer are current or former smokers). So the take-home message is clear: don't smoke--and if you do smoke, quit. You would think no one would still have to say that in 2006. But the sad fact of the matter is that more women are smoking--and dying-- than ever before in the U.S., and smoking is also increasing among men and women around...
...where she occasionally appeared on her husband's anthology series and starred, for the 1961 season, in her own show. She also spent time caring for the ailing Powell - who, like his co-stars John Wayne and Susan Hayward, and reported scores of other crew members, had contracted cancer after shooting The Conqueror on location near a nuclear test site. He died...
DIED. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, mezzo-soprano known for her intensely powerful voice and overwhelmingly emotional performances; after a long battle with breast cancer; in Santa Fe, N.M. Hunt Lieberson, a violist, didn't get her big break as a singer until she was 31, when controversial director Peter Sellars cast her in a summer festival production of Handel's Giulio Cesare. Throughout her career, she made unconventional choices, favoring complex roles in little-known baroque operas as well as contemporary pieces such as John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, in which she made her 1999 debut at New York...