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...Lung & bronchus 68,000 2 Breast 43,300 3 Colon & rectum 28,800 4 Pancreas 14,700 5 Ovary...
DIED. MARIUS SCHOON, below, right, 61, white South African antiapartheid activist; of lung cancer; in Johannesburg. Schoon was jailed for 12 years for a failed attempt in the '60s to bomb a police building. In 1984 his wife and daughter were killed by a mail bomb sent at the behest of a police official who later admitted to the crime. Said President Nelson Mandela: "He destroyed the myth that all Afrikaners were racists and oppressors...
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When nonsmokers suffer from lung diseases such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis or asthma, their lung-cancer risk rises as much as 94%. The cause might be genetic or the result of chronic inflammation...
...tomorrow," she notes. It means that over a lifetime of 85 years, 1 out of 9 women will develop breast cancer. But two-thirds of breast-cancer patients die of something else. In fact, heart disease is by far the biggest killer of women in the U.S., followed by lung cancer...