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Of the various types of cancer that afflict children, few are more fearsome than osteogenic sarcoma, a tumor that originates in the bone and spreads rapidly. By the time doctors can tell that the pain in a youngster's arm or leg is the product of such a tumor...
At the start of his eight-day leap-frog tour from Washington to Brussels to Moscow, Nixon was still suffering from phlebitis, an inflammation of a vein that he had first noticed in his left leg when he began his Middle East tour two weeks earlier. Though the pain had...
It is during that time long ago that Chinatown, an exotic and cunning entertainment, takes place. It is very much molded, too, in the Chandler style, intricately written by Robert Towne and directed by Roman Polanski with a sort of edgy placidity that breaks into moments of sudden violence. Jack...
The fibers, intermeshing with the tissue of the lung, had condensed to form small asbestos bodies that were visible upon autopsy. They had passed from the lungs into the pleural and peritonial sacks, and over a 20- to 40-year period had caused the malignant growths.
Attempts to investigate asbestos-induced cancer have led doctors to look more closely at exposure, where contamination is most prevalent. It has long been known that industrial exposure may result in a different asbestos-caused disease, severe scarring of the lungs that causes a pulmonary fibrosis called, appropriately enough, asbestosis...