Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...analogy I like to use is...the majority ofpeople with lung cancer have a yellow finger,"from smoking cigarettes, says Hennekens. "Bypreventing yellow finger, you're not going to doanything about [cancer...
...California at San Francisco. Since then, scientists have found more than 50, some of which appear to be more important than others in human cancers. Mutations in the RAS oncogene, for instance, are believed to play a role in a majority of pancreatic and colon cancers, and some lung cancers as well. Mutations in other oncogenes have been linked to leukemia and the most lethal forms of breast and ovarian cancer...
Transplants from living donors have been performed with kidneys and parts of the pancreas and liver, but never before with a lung. Lungs taken from cadavers are regularly transplanted into adults, but for reasons not well understood, children's bodies are more likely to reject them. If the new procedure proves successful, it may eventually be offered to thousands of premature infants with badly damaged lungs...
...higher taxes and cutbacks in social services. Environmentalists point out that the cost of doing nothing could have been higher, perhaps $50 billion a year. It is not clear, though, exactly how one calculates the price of forests ruined by acid rain or the suffering caused by pollution-related lung diseases and birth defects...
Innovative laboratory techniques are conquering more and more cases of infertility, even in women who have already reached menopause. -- A mother donates her lung...