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...years go by, an ex-smoker's risk of heart disease and stroke diminishes until it's essentially the same as that of a person who has never smoked, says Dr. Corinne Husten of the Centers for Disease Control's Office on Smoking and Health. Alas, the risk of lung cancer never quite gets down to what it would have been without smoking. "Even with cancer, people respond better to chemotherapy if they quit," Husten says. Best of all, of course, would be not to take up the habit in the first place...
...DIED. ANITA MUI, 40, flamboyant actress and Canto-pop diva, known as the Asian Madonna; of lung dysfunction caused by cervical cancer; in Hong Kong. (See Appreciation, page...
...published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. John Birkmeyer, general-surgery chief at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., reviewed the charts of nearly 475,000 Medicare patients, all of whom had undergone one of eight high-risk operations, such as heart procedures or surgery for lung or pancreatic cancer...
Ladies, want another reason to quit smoking? A study presented last week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America suggests that women who smoke are twice as likely as male smokers to develop lung cancer. Using computed tomography (C.T.) scanning, researchers studied nearly 3,000 male and female smokers 40 and older. Not surprisingly, they found that the risk of developing lung cancer increased with the amount smoked as well as with age. But they also found that independent of those two variables, women smokers still had double the cancer risk of men. Why is unclear...
Every year about 60,000 babies are born in the U.S. weighing less than 3.3 lbs. and at risk of chronic lung disease. University of Chicago researchers reported last week that the outlook for such neonates could be improved with low doses of nitric oxide. In a study of 207 preemies, doctors gave half the group nitric oxide with their oxygen; the other half got the standard stuff. While 85% survived in the nitric oxide group, only 78% of the controls did. Of the nitric oxide infants, 61% were free of lung disease; that was true...