Word: ovarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safe way to prevent pregnancy. But fears spread in the 1970s, after researchers found that users of the Pill, particularly smokers, were somewhat more vulnerable than other women to heart attacks and strokes. In the '80s the Pill became attractive again after scientists showed that it helps protect against ovarian and endometrial cancer...
...shocked and outraged at an anonymous letter in the January 8th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In the letter, a resident physician wrote in, describing how he had been summoned to the bedside of a 20-year-old patient named Debbie, who was dying of ovarian cancer...
...patient's name was Debbie, and she was dying of ovarian cancer. After two sleepless days, she was struggling to breathe, vomiting repeatedly from a drug meant to sedate her. The resident physician on call was roused from sleep and summoned to her bedside in the night. The doctor had never seen the emaciated, dark-haired figure before. "It was a gallows scene, a cruel mockery of her youth and unfulfilled potential," the doctor wrote later. "Her only words to me were, 'Let's get this over with.' " The resident took her exhausted plea literally and instructed a nurse...
...town lost 24 men to lung cancer; 15 such deaths would be expected in a town with Holbrook's age distribution and population. During the same period, Holbrook men were dying of bladder cancer at a rate more than three times the average, and fatal uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers occurred at more than twice the normal rate...
...baby" in November, which was announced last week by scientists in Australia, marks a new step in overcoming infertility. Declared Gynecologist Wayne Decker, executive director of the Fertility Research Foundation of New York: "It is a remarkable and astounding feat that offers hope to all women who suffer from ovarian failure or who have had their ovaries removed...