Word: glands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assign us all tracking numbers. Pros: When you move, you won't have to go through the hassle of transferring your records; plus scientists will be able to follow the spread of contagious diseases much more effectively. Cons: Some 14-year-old hacker might find out about that embarassing gland condition...
...related to my prostate. As in many men my age, the status of my prostate is top priority, the site of the most common cancer in males. If I were a woman, breast cancer would be of similar concern. In a 25-year-old male, the prostate gland is the size of a grape; in a 50-year-old, it is the size of a chestnut because of its thickened walls. The enlarged gland constricts the urethra that it encircles, diminishing the ability to urinate fully. As the prostate continues to swell with increasing age, malignancies may develop; they...
...thyroid gland controls the body's basal metabolic rate--the rate at which it consumes energy while at rest. When the thyroid hormone is produced in excess, the body consumes energy faster than it can be supplied. The result is a haywire combination of anxiety, tension and fatigue. The body wants to go, go, go--and it does, even when it isn't going anywhere. This type of things can wear you out, even if you haven't been exerting yourself...
Currently I'm on medication to suppress my overactive thyroid gland. The hope is that by taking my medication regularly and by doing my best to regulate my lifestyle, my thyroid gland will quickly begin to regulate itself as well. I figure my metabolism has to slow down eventually. After all, my Harvard experience will be going into remission starting in about two weeks. That might be just the thing my Graves' Disease needs to head into remission along with...
...When we put tumors in, they all stoppedgrowing at a millimeter or less," Folkman says."You could see it. The difference was in thethyroid gland with hemoglobin solutions, theendothelial cells along the blood vessels swelledup and prevented blood vessels from reaching thetumor. But when we moved the tumor to the animal,it grew and killed the animal. In 1961, we saw forthe first time that when you have no bloodvessels, tumors stopped growing...