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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Genome Is Mapped. Now What? | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's Official: You're Stupid to Smoke Cigars | 6/27/2000 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 26, 2000 | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 26, 2000 | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Man Who Wouldn't Be Vice President | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

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