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Word: chests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henderson said that after radical surgery, there is less chance of cancer reappearing on the patient's chest wall than after simple, less-disfiguring surgery, but radical surgery does not improve the survival rate because cancer has usually spread to other organs before it is detected in the breast...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Breast Cancer Study Doubts Value of 'Disfiguring' Surgery | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...Danish follow-up surveys of thousands of women ten to 20 years after they had breast surgery, Fox found that the survival rate of women who had simple mastectomies--removal of the breast--was the same as the survival rate of women who had radical mastectomies--removal of the chest muscle, lymph nodes under the arm and the breast...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Breast Cancer Study Doubts Value of 'Disfiguring' Surgery | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

Herbig was found with stab wounds in the chest and abdomen at 4 a.m. on January 17, and died in the emergency room of the George Washington Hospital a little more than an hour later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Student Stabbed to Death In Washington | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

Tehran-based employees of Bell Helicopter International sported grimly humorous T shirts last week. They were emblazoned with the slogan KEEP A LOW PROFILE and a row of bullet holes across the chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Yankees Who Did Not Go Home | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...children close, then killed them. When only the adult males were left, they lay down near their families, and one of them, chosen in advance, killed his mates one by one. Finally, with the Romans approaching, this last man completed his task by driving a dagger into his chest. Masada had fallen after a three-year stand, but the symbolic act of defiance remains even now as heroic. Faced with the choice of life under a hated regime or death as free men, the defenders of Masada decided that death was better...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: A World Gone Berserk | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

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