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...cancer. Currently, pathologists use the location of a tumor in the patient's body and its appearance under a microscope to determine what sort of malignancy is involved. It works often--but not always. Melanoma, for example, starts out as a skin cancer but may end up in the lung or breast, where it can be much more damaging than primary lung or breast cancer...
Here's one of the proposed tag lines: Surgeon General's Warning: Cigar Smoking Can Cause Lung Cancer and Heart Disease. When the agency actually implements the labels after a month of consumer review, you may encounter other, equally unsubtle admonitions, but the general message remains the same: Cigars are not good for you. If you smoke three or four cigars a day, says the American Cancer Society, you increase your risk of oral cancer more than eight times over. If you find the time to smoke more than five cigars a day, somebody needs to give you more work...
DIED. MICHAELA ODONE, 61, activist who developed a treatment for her son Lorenzo's degenerative brain disease and was portrayed by Susan Sarandon in the film Lorenzo's Oil; of lung cancer; in Fairfax...
DIED. ROBERT J. LURTSEMA, 68, host of classical-music radio show Morning pro musica, known for his sonorous voice and his practice of playing a recording of a birdsong at the opening of his show; of lung disease...
...even quietly--he's a popular boss. He dines at his desk off Styrofoam, rides up front with the driver of his government car and thinks a perfect night on the town is a thick steak at the Palm with his son William Jr. (A second son died of lung disease when he was eight years old.) He's a neighbor of Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Fred Thompson in a downtown condo and visits his wife and two daughters in Chicago on weekends. Unlike some others in the Administration, Daley likes to throw on a tux and socialize with...