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...will study the effects of low-fat diets, post-menopausal hormone-replacement and vitamin supplements on heart disease, osteoporosis, and colon, rectal and breast cancers. It aims to recruit a total of 160,000 American women between the ages...
...Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first blood test for prostate cancer, substantially increasing the odds of early detection of the disease. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer killer of American men. The FDA said that using the blood test bumped the accuracy of the traditional digital rectal exam by at least 25 percent...
...book represents a diagnostician's exhaustive checkup of his new community, in which he finds as many hidden fears and lesions as in any of his patients. He meets a preacher who has "penile, rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea." He hears of macho truck drivers who have quick liaisons with men because they don't charge, and he learns of married men in church making dates with the gay men they know. Most of all he listens with sympathy to the woman who begs him to keep her son's disease a secret so she won't have to endure "faggot...
...CONTAMINATION: There are no rules about how much is safe, but the N.R.D.C. cites EPA figures showing that about 50 million Americans drink radon-tainted water. The tasteless, odorless gas, which seeps into water naturally from underground rocks in many areas, is a proven cause of both lung and rectal cancer...
...while admitting that some pollutants are indeed present and dangerous, officials protest that there are limits to what they can do. Radon may cause 200 fatal lung and rectal cancers a year. Yet the Association of California Water Agencies estimates that to eliminate it completely from water in that state alone would cost $3.7 billion. Is that a reasonable investment for preventing perhaps a score of deaths? Is $711 million per case of cancer too much to pay for the elimination of pentachlorophenol, a fungicide used in the lumber industry, or $80 billion per case too much...