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...cancer. Since the dosage of radiation is relatively low, the effects do not appear for many years, yet they do surface eventually. Doctors at the Shiprock Indian Hospital treating the miners have found that neither radiation therapy nor surgery arrests the cancers' development. This rare type of small-cell carcinoma is diagnosed usually less than a year before the time it claims its victim...
...connective tissue. Drs. Werner and Gertrude Henle of the University of Pennsylvania have studied an intruder known as the Epstein-Barr virus in cells from victims of Burkitt's lymphoma, a tumor of the lymph glands. They have also studied the virus in cells of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat. Joseph Melnick of Baylor College of Medicine has determined that antibodies formed by the body to combat the herpes Type 2 virus* which often causes sores in the genital area, are found more frequently in women with cervical cancer than in those...
Instead, Ory's study proposes that the possibilities of contracting pre-cancerous changes, or carcinoma-in-situ, are greater among women using the pill than those using intrauterine devices...
...badly designed. But bits and pieces of the findings have been carefully leaked to the press by anti-Pill crusaders. The essence: among women on the Pill, Dubrow and Melamed found twice as many cases of cell changes as among women using diaphragms. They call these changes "carcinoma in situ" (literally "cancer in place," as distinct from cancer that has spread). This condition is also known as "carcinoma, stage zero," and as a "precancerous condition," although it does not always lead to cancer. What is not clear is whether these women had any greater incidence of cell abnormalities than...
...sing of rectal carcinoma...