Word: epidermoid
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...gets lung cancer and what type he gets may depend partly on constitutional factors, suggested Dr. Sheldon C. Sommers of La Jolla. The commonest form (epidermoid bronchogenic carcinoma) is associated not only with irritation from industrial fumes or heavy smoking, but also with a high level of male sex hor mones in the patients. Adenocarcinoma, less common, is the usual form in women and in men with high outputs of female hormones. A third type, called "oat-cell" or undifferentiated, occurs in men whose adrenal glands put out an excess of corti sone-type hormones...
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