Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test for primary liver cell cancer, developed by doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Institute Gustave-Roussy near Paris, is expected to be four to 10 times as sensitive as current tests for a protein that indicates the presence of the disease...
...Primary liver cell cancer is nearly 100 percent fatal because tumors in the liver are almost never discovered early enough for removal, and this particular type of cancer has proven "very resistant to chemotherapy," said Dr. Jack R. Wands, an associate professor of medicine at the Medical School and co-author of the discovery...
Wands and his French colleague, Dr. Dominique Bellet, announced Tuesday that they had developed the new test, which examines the blood levels of alphafetoprotein (AFP), a substance produced in the liver of fetuses but which usually disappears after birth...
...steroid user may cost an athlete far more than his or her Olympic medal: a growing body of medical evidence indicates that athletes who take steroids have experienced problems ranging from sterility to loss of libido, and the drug has been implicated in the deaths of young athletes from liver cancer and a type of kidney tumor. Steroid use has also been linked to heart disease. "Athletes who take steroids are playing with dynamite," says Robert Goldman, 29, a former wrestler and weight lifter who is now a research fellow in sports medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center...
...trade negotiations. The EC conceded three minor points. First, they agreed to lower levies on turkey drumsticks, breasts, and thighs by using new coefficients for calculating gate prices. Second, they agreed to keep seasoned, uncooked turkey at the bound rate of 17%. Finally, the Community decided to reduce turkey liver levies from 14% ad valorem...