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Coffee drinkers, take note: You are more than twice as likely as non-drinkers to contract cancer of the pancreas, according to a School of Public Health (SPH) study released this week. The risk of cancer for coffee drinkers is 2.6 times greater than for non-drinkers in men, and 2.3 times greater in women, the seven-year-long study found. Under the direction of Dr. Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the SPH, researchers questioned patients in 11 Boston-area hospitals--369 with cancer of the pancreas and 644 control patients--on their use of tobacco...
Despite Amos's qualified optimism administrators in the Med School and the SPH fear that Reagan's promises to eliminate aid for students in the health professions currently authorized by the department of Health and Human Services will slip past Congress
Speaking at the SPH last Wednesday, Cairns questioned current methods of studying causes of cancer. He said that he was not convinced that localized mutations were responsible for the majority of cancer cases, as is now believed...
...Winsten, Policy Director for the SPH, last week called Cairns' efforts to replicate DNA a "major breakthrough in cancer research. He cited Cairns as "one of the world's most highly regarded cancer specialists as well as a leading microbiologist...
Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the SPH, yesterday called Cairns' appointment particularly significant because "few people with his background in molecular biology have applied that background to human problems...