Word: lungful
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...terminally ill patients, the best you can expect of the experimental drugs is to keep tumors from spreading. So researchers have begun to evaluate them in conjunction with traditional chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. So far, the results are promising. Preliminary trials involving patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer and kidney cancer suggest that the combination of angiogenesis inhibitors with standard therapy improves survival rates beyond those of either treatment alone...
...Courtesy of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) >> Click here for additional information
...know, however, that preventing disease can be a lot easier and cheaper than trying to cure it. It was by studying the differences between people who get sick and people who don't--the branch of medical science known as epidemiology--that doctors discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer, between cholesterol and heart disease, between salt and high blood pressure. Epidemiology also led to the understanding that cooked tomatoes may help protect against prostate cancer, and that fruits and vegetables tend to stave off cancers of all sorts...
IMPLANT ALERT After years of controversy over whether silicone breast implants are linked to connective-tissue disorders--the latest consensus is that they aren't--scientists raise a new concern. A 13-year study suggests that women with implants may be three times as likely to die of lung cancer and twice as likely to die of brain cancer as other plastic-surgery patients. Researchers can't explain their findings, but they know that it doesn't make a difference whether the implants are made of silicone or saline...
...grateful for yoga's help through some very tough times in her late 20s. She was in school as an older, much-watched student; she'd stopped the intensive modeling schedule she'd had for 11 years; and her father (in California, where she grew up) was diagnosed with lung cancer and had only six months to live...