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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henderson said that after radical surgery, there is less chance of cancer reappearing on the patient's chest wall than after simple, less-disfiguring surgery, but radical surgery does not improve the survival rate because cancer has usually spread to other organs before it is detected in the breast...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Breast Cancer Study Doubts Value of 'Disfiguring' Surgery | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...School of Public Health (SPH) study shows that radical breast surgery is "no more effective than more conservative less mutilating treatment," Maurice S. Fox, professor of Biology at MIT and author of the study, said this week...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Breast Cancer Study Doubts Value of 'Disfiguring' Surgery | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

Henderson added there has been a marked change in recent years towards less disfiguring surgery. He said National Institute of Health figures indicate the number of women having radical mastectomies was halved between 1970 and 1976 while the number having modified radical surgery (which does not involve removal of the chest muscle or total dissection of the lymph nodes) more than tripled...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Breast Cancer Study Doubts Value of 'Disfiguring' Surgery | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...that they can never take the time to enjoy their profits. The Vallets have a large bank account, but they are always too busy working to spend the money. The work ethic is so deeply ingrained within them that they simply can't bear to be idle, to work less than their full capacity...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

Nicholas, viens ici," he called; so with pounding heart and sweating hands, I joined him near the engine. To my horror he didn't even shut off the motor, much less allow it to cool off. Impatiently, he told me to hold the funnel as he poured the diesel into the tank. I did so with much trepidation, half-expecting the diesel to splash onto the red hot exhaust pipe six inches away, blowing up all to kingdom come at any moment. I really grew panicky when Gilles switched his lit cigarette from his right hand to his mouth. Even...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

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