Word: lungful
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...these tests worth the cost? They have not been rigorously tested, and there is no strong scientific evidence that they are beneficial, although some people will be lucky: a serious disease, lung cancer, for example--may be detected in its earliest stages, when it is most treatable...
...researchers call a microarray. Once the machine has created a few dozen of these arrays, they will be rolled up, inserted into glass tubes and doused with radioactive dye and genetic material from a range of human tissue types--from normal, healthy cells to diseased cells representing breast, prostate, lung or colon cancer. Emerging from this experiment will be a set of data points, glowing with eerie phosphorescence, that may someday lead scientists to a new cure for one of the deadliest scourges known...
...LUNG CANCER Researchers were pleased to find that a diet rich in fruits and veggies reduced the risk--at least in women--of the No. 1 cancer killer in the U.S. Apples, pears, cauliflower and grapefruit were particularly active against the incidence of lung cancer for reasons that are still unclear (although scientists suspect carotenoids may be powerful anticarcinogens). But the bottom line is that no quantity of cabbages and citrus fruit can outweigh the benefits of not smoking...
Raymond Carver was only 50 when he died, in 1988, of lung cancer. Those who knew him personally mourned, and continue to mourn, the loss of a warm and generous friend, a man whose hard early life--periods of dead-end jobs and poverty, severe alcoholism--had somehow made him gentle. Readers aware of him only from his books have missed him too, for Carver had, during the 12 years preceding his death, virtually reinvented the American short story...
...Lung Cancer Researchers were pleased to find that a diet rich in fruits and veggies reduced the risk - at least in women - of the No. 1 cancer killer in the U.S. Apples, pears, cauliflower and grapefruit were particularly active against the incidence of lung cancer for reasons are that are still unclear (although scientists suspect carotenoids may be powerful anticarcinogens). But the bottom line is that no quantity of cabbages or citrus fruits can outweigh the benefits of quitting smoking...