Word: carcinoma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being conservative." The Epstein-Barr virus has been associated with a couple of types of cancer. In Central Africa and New Guinea, it has been linked to Burkitt's lymphoma, an immune-cell cancer that primarily strikes children. In southern China, the virus plays a role in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat that afflicts more than 50,000 people a year. Retroviruses are known to cause cancer in a wide range of animals, from mice to chickens. In the early 1980s, Dr. Robert Gallo and his co-workers, as well as a group of Japanese researchers...
...front and offhand nature of his statement was intended to dispel the sort of confusion that attended the Administration's handling of the President's previous nose operation last July. Then it was six days before Reagan took questions on the subject. The diagnosis, now as then: basal-cell carcinoma, the most common and least dangerous form of cancer. The second lesion on the President's nose was removed by a Washington dermatologist, whom the Administration refuses to identify, in a short operation performed in the White House doctor's office under local anesthetic. Reagan explained that his doctors...
About 80% of the skin cancers caused by the sun are basal-cell carcinoma. Usually occurring on the head or neck, they are the most common and curable form of cancer in the U.S. Nancy Reagan was one of 400,000 Americans treated for this disease last year; she has more recently had several spots of keratosis removed from her face to prevent a recurrence. Skin cancers that appear elsewhere on the body are usually squamous-cell carcinoma, also easily cured by surgery...
...Burgess's eyes, Freud is a Victorian Job, plagued by the doctrinal defections of Carl Jung, Otto Rank and his own daughter Anna. The therapist's love of cigars, which contribute to the carcinoma that kills him, is analyzed by Jung. The Swiss tells Freud's mother that Sigmund's smoking is "sheer devotion ... to you, gnadige Frau...
...that the decrease in frequency of ovarian cancer in women over 40 is enough to say that oral contraceptives are a preventative--women are not going to use them for that reason," he said. "The findings," he remarked, "may lead to areas of investigation into the ideologic factors causing carcinoma...