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...years women had the consolation that cigarette smoking was somehow more hazardous to men. No longer. In a 400-page report to Congress last week, Surgeon General Julius Richmond said that women face the same dangers in smoking as men. Indeed, lung cancer deaths among women are rising so rapidly that by 1983 the smoking-related disease should overtake breast cancer as the leading cancer killer of U.S. women. The reason, says Richmond, is that so many women picked up the habit during and after World War II, a full 25 years after men did; and lung cancer often takes...
Each year Doctors Robert Crosthwait and Robert Angel perform more than one hundred and twenty coronary artery bypass operations at Providence Hospital in Waco, Texas. Once the patient is anesthetized, his chest is opened and his heart is connected to a heart lung machine which will maintain the body's circulation while the heart is stopped. In the photograph above, Dr. Crosthwait makes an incision to expose the coronary artery while Dr. Angel aids with forceps. They will then stitch one end of a vein which they have removed from the patient's leg to the coronary and the other...
...steam tunnels underneath the University are insulated with asbestos fibers which, when airborne, can cause lung cancer...
DIED. Herbert ("Zeppo") Marx, 78, last of the madcap Marx brothers; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. The youngest Marx was pulled out of high school to replace his brother Gummo, who left the family vaudeville team before it moved to Hollywood. Cast as the straight man, Zeppo joined Chico (who died in 1961), Harpo (1964) and Groucho (1977) in five classic films, but he tired of his role and left the group after the release of Duck Soup in 1933. "He was a lousy actor," grouched Groucho, "and he got out as soon as he could." But Zeppo...
...ranked recqueteer Becky Lung, who combines a power game with an assortment of well-timed drop shots has had trouble with her knee, but is rounding into form...