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...there is also bad news about breast cancer. The number of cases continues to soar. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the U.S. incidence increased 32% between 1982 and 1987. Only lung cancer is rising faster. Cancer is the leading cause of death for women 35 to 50, and breast cancer is the most common malignancy in this age group. All in all, an American woman has a 1-in-10 chance of developing breast cancer over the course of her lifetime, and that risk keeps on rising...
...role does it play? No one in the research community believes that too many thick shakes and fries can in themselves cause normal, well-behaved cells to mutate into unruly malignant ones. In fact, no one has the faintest notion what causes the initial genetic changes to occur. "In lung cancer we have a reasonable idea that the major cause is cigarette smoking," says Dr. Philip Leder, chairman of Harvard's department of genetics. "In skin cancer we understand that the major cause is ultraviolet light, which is absorbed by DNA and causes it to break. But with breast cancer...
...associated with electromagnetism are rather small. Brain cancer is a rare disease. Only 3.1 cases per 100,000 people were reported in 1986. In the most worrisome studies, the risk of developing such a cancer appears to double or triple because of ELF fields. By contrast, the risk of lung cancer for a chain smoker is 20 times as great as it is for the public at large...
...American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 155,000 new cases of colon cancer this year and almost 61,000 deaths from the disease, making it second only to lung cancer among fatal malignancies. Diets high in fat and low in fiber from fruits and vegetables have long been implicated in the disease. One clue: the ailment becomes more common among people as they emigrate from countries, like Japan, where meat consumption is low, to the U.S., where meat is a staple. Scientists speculate that bile acids produced by the liver to help digest fats can damage the intestine...
...book is, on the surface, a football story. Harold Gravely is the head football coach at a large university in the South. Having captured the national championship by defeating Clemson in the Sugar Bowl 20 years ago, Gravely has produced a series of losing, embarrassing seasons. Gravely also faces lung cancer, a dead marriage, and a town of angry, Southern football fanatics who call him late at night and make insulting comments about the size of his wife...