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...lack of fruits and vegetables and a high intake of alcohol may increase a person's risk of colon cancer by as much as 300 percent, according to a study released this week by the Harvard School of Public Health...
...looked every inch his former self to the millions of television viewers. At the top step he paused a bit, gave that smile of his, and the crowd burst into applause despite the somber nature of the moment. He still seemed invincible -- the man who survived falls off horses, colon and skin cancer, prostate problems and even an assassin's bullet in the chest...
...Colon cancer does seem to run in families. A study of more than 1 million Utah residents showed that a person with parents, siblings or children with colon cancer is almost three times as likely to develop it as a person whose immediate family is free of the disease...
...museum for $7.50 when Philadelphia's old cemetery was moved in 1875. Then there is the pair of twins who share a single skull; the Frenchwoman who grew horny protrusions all over her body, including her forehead (top left); a heart made translucent by chemicals; the constipation-racked colon of the Balloon Man, which swelled to 8 ft. long and 27 in. around before -- as the organ's label records -- his case "terminated fatally." The bladder stones of Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835) are here, along with a death cast of the original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, connected...
With the Women's Health Initiative, the administration launched the largest clinical research study ever conducted on either men or women to examine the major causes of death, disability and frailty in post-menopausal women: heart disease, breast and colon cancer and osteoporosis. An emphasis to include minority women at each clinical site is a component of the study...