Word: larynx
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Virginia state health department show that the incidence of respiratory cancer is higher in Chemical Valley than in the nation as a whole. Says Wayne Ferguson, a West Virginia State official: "My father, who never smoked or drank in his entire life, had cancer of the larynx. He was a professor at the college. His classroom window looked out at the plant." Ferguson would "love to see the plant close," but adds, "I'm probably in the minority around here...
...sick; hypochondria be came a lifelong pal. As a Cornell student, he was convinced that he had consumption; in his later years he noted: "I have had a frog in my throat for some time now, and of course with me this develops almost instantly into cancer of the larynx, because that is the way I'm built." He was also constructed, as this biography makes clear, to share his mastery of English syntax with countless readers, who seek out E.B. White's prose the way an older generation gravitated toward dark, warm-smelling barns or clear wild...
...committee advised Americans to drink only "moderate" amounts of alcohol, although it did not specify how much. Alcohol consumption, particularly when combined with smoking, has been linked to mouth, larynx, liver and lung cancers. Panel members were not, however, able to confirm reports that dietary fiber reduces the risk of bowel cancer. Nor was the evidence sufficient to convince them of the prophylactic benefits of vitamin E or the perils of preservatives, food dyes and other chemical additives...
...first to focus exclusively on the relationship of smoking to cancer. The 1964 report concluded that cigarette smoking was the primary cause of lung cancer in men and probably in women. Today smoking is considered a major cause not only of lung cancer but of cancer of the larynx, oral cavity and esophagus, and a contributing factor in the development of malignancy in the bladder, pancreas and kidney. The report also notes an association between smoking and cancer of the stomach. There may also be a tie to cancer of the cervix...
Having developed tuberculosis of the larynx in the last few months of his life, he stopped eating, effectively becoming the hunger artist he had created in one of his most famous and revealing stories. But yet he took pleasure in other people's pleasure, and in a somehow wondrous bit of real-life symbolism, asked other people to take deep draughts of water and beer in front of him. Kafka never hated the world like he hated himself, and his endless capacity for empathy is for Hayman, one of the earmarks of his genius...