Word: lungful
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...LUNG REDUX A highly promoted type of surgery for emphysema that removes up to 30% of the lung so that healthier parts can expand shows little benefit and a high risk of death for the sickest patients. Results were released early to keep similar patients out of the O.R. Still, proponents insist, the operation works. --By Amanda Bower...
...always be so simple, however. For one thing, some cancers leave bigger footprints than others. In the urine of a patient with bladder cancer, for example, more than half the genetic material could derive from the tumor, making detection relatively straightforward. The sputum of a lung-cancer patient, on the other hand, is much more diverse; less than 1% of its DNA is traceable to cancer. Clearly, other genetic clues will have to be developed, and Sidransky is already tracking down several of them. The challenge, to his delight, never ends...
...According to the American Lung Association, Americans consume 420 billion cigarettes per year, or 21 billion packs. Which means that between the states, the feds and the trial lawyers, smokers are coughing up $30 billion a year to The Man. (Keep in mind these numbers are after John McCain?s $400 billion-plus-$1.50-a-pack-tax settlement bill failed in 1998, and pending the settlement of a Clinton-launched $20 billion heath-care-recoup suit that the Bush DOJ is cool on pursuing...
DIED. MIMI FARINA, 56, folk singer and sister of Joan Baez; of complications from lung cancer; in Mill Valley, Calif. An accomplished vocalist and fixture of the '60s folk scene, Farina founded Bread & Roses, an organization that enlisted well-known artists to perform in prisons, psychiatric facilities, senior centers and homes for abused children. A talented guitar player who began singing with her sister at age 14, she married Richard Farina at 18 (novelist Thomas Pynchon was best man at their wedding) and recorded two albums with him before Richard died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. Their lives...
...remember my father is the breadth of his shoulders and the strength of his back. For 82 years from the age of three, my father devoted the whole of his existence to the Kabuki stage, living many lives through his many roles. Following each of three operations for lung cancer over the past seven-and-a-half years, he returned right away to the stage. As he lay in intensive care, I told him, "You've worked too hard." Tears appeared in his eyes. I can only wonder what those tears said. Drama is life. For the life...