Word: lungfuls
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...after his big-time bonk, Landis, who suffers from a degenerative hip condition that will require replacement surgery, staged the most spectacular comeback in Tour de France history. He blazed over three steep, lung-burning mountain passes, shredding the field to win the day's 125-mile race by nearly six minutes and pull into third place in the overall standings, just 30 seconds behind ex-teammate and leader Oscar Pereiro of Spain. "He went from the penthouse to the outhouse to the moon," says Ventura. Saturday, as expected, Landis sprinted past Pereiro and Carlos Sastre, also from Spain...
...years researchers have debated whether smoking affects the lungs of men and women differently. So far, there's been as much evidence against a sex bias as for one. But that may be starting to change. In the most compelling study on the topic to date, researchers determined that women are twice as vulnerable to lung cancer as men but, in a surprising twist, they die at half the rate...
...women from throughout North America who were healthy, at least 40 years old and either current or former smokers. Over the course of more than eight years, a group of investigators led by Dr. Claudia Henschke of the Weill Medical College in New York City identified lung tumors in 113 of the men and 156 of the women. Then the researchers kept track of who lived and for how long, as well as the treatment participants were given. The study showed that both sexes tended to be in their late 60s when they received a lung-cancer diagnosis but that...
...knew who would become sick. (Other studies were so-called retrospective reports, which can lead investigators to jump to conclusions since they already know the outcome.) She and her colleagues are also trying to determine whether the experimental CT scans they used to find the tumors could help detect lung cancers in current and former smokers at a much earlier stage, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful treatment...
There's one thing about which all investigators already agree: lung cancer is particularly deadly (85% of patients die within five years of their diagnosis) and almost entirely preventable (85% of people with lung cancer are current or former smokers). So the take-home message is clear: don't smoke--and if you do smoke, quit. You would think no one would still have to say that in 2006. But the sad fact of the matter is that more women are smoking--and dying-- than ever before in the U.S., and smoking is also increasing among men and women around...