Word: lungfuls
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...invested in research, which led to the first commercially available CT scanner in the early 1970s. CT was a huge plus: It could image so many things in the body that were difficult, painful or simply impossible to see otherwise - brain tumors, spine problems, problems in the liver or lung. Nevertheless, in the '90s, CT scans were largely upstaged by the vastly more complex - but radiation-free - MRI scan. Overall, few docs would disagree that the MRI is a better test. Except for being somewhat less sharp when looking at bone, MRI is clearly more sensitive and versatile...
...soft on crime, that her budget proposals would focus more on computers for education than on pricey anticrime measures. An early opponent of the war in Iraq, she warned in 2003 before the invasion, "We should have learned by the Vietnam War, but we did not." Carson, who had lung cancer...
...cancer has spread to involve not only the original area, but other organs or tissues as well. It can, however, be combined with other systemic treatments, such as chemotherapy, to treat metastatic disease, and has often been used to treat solid metastatic tumors most commonly found in the lungs, liver, spine and brain. And the technology is continually evolving. The company's Synchrony program allows doctors to irradiate lung tumors by synchronizing the robotic arm with the rise and fall of a patient's breathing. Says Thomson: "Our dream is that we'll make radiosurgery an option for every cancer...
...born Robert) to clarify that he was not that bad a guy, uplifted a generation dazed by Vietnam and Watergate. America, he said, "needed somebody who would spill blood and break bones ... who wasn't phony." He made it a point to be that person. Knievel, who had incurable lung disease, died at 69 after years of ill health...
...According to Corbett, who did all the promotional posters and pins for Butte's annual Evel Knievel Days each summer, Knievel was suffering from a lung ailment, pulmonary fibrosis. "When you spoke with him, it was an effort for him to finish a sentence without taking another breath," he said. "But he faithfully came to Evel Knievel Days in Butte, even though the severe altitude change, from sea level to mile-high, was especially hard on him. But he was tough...