Word: colons
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...five-decade-old comic, just hours before that newspaper containing his farewell Sunday strip arrived at the door of his Santa Rosa, Calif., home - Charles Schulz died in his sleep Saturday evening. "Peanuts," he had long said, would end with him, and he was ready; having been diagnosed with colon cancer just months earlier, he was wrapping things up. The last daily "Peanuts" comic strip ran January 3; Sunday's was the final big weekend act, and was a farewell note...
...After choosing which form of cancer (currently breast, lung, colon, or prostate) to evaluate, users submit a brief survey on diet, medical and family history. The Web site then returns an estimate of risk relative to others of the same age and gender...
...Saturday, at a Democratic fund-raiser President Clinton pointed out that the future of free access to abortion may rest in the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. His speech, juxtaposed with the announcement by the liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she is continuing successful treatment for colon cancer, reminds us just how significant each position on the Court really...
LIFE AT THE PUMP There's new hope for patients whose colon cancer has spread to the liver. Survival rates improve dramatically when cancer-fighting drugs are delivered directly to the liver through a pump implanted in the belly after the malignancy is surgically removed. In a study, 85% of patients who received chemotherapy via the pump along with standard chemo were still alive after two years, compared with 72% on standard chemo alone...