Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When doctors discovered last March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...
...Samuel Hellman of Harvard's Joint Center for Radiation Therapy points out that radical surgery-or any other treatment, including radiation-is frequently performed so late that the removal of additional tissue is no insurance against a recurrence of the disease; too often, cancerous cells have already spread to other parts of the body far from their original site in the breast. Thus, Hellman and other doctors are stressing local control of the cancer by destroying the primary tumor-with radiation from an external or internal source, or both-without subjecting the patient to further disfigurement...
...optimistic about ultimately finding a safe sugar substitute. But their task is complicated by the subtle and elusive nature of the taste mechanism. Most of the known artificial sweeteners have been discovered accidentally. To make sweeteners to order, scientists will need to learn more about the taste buds. Spread across the tongue, these clusters of cells are sensitive to the four major taste sensations: sweet, sour, bitter and salt. Physiologists believe that parts of the food molecules actually fit loosely into receptors on the cells, somewhat like a key in a lock, thereby sending a signal to the appropriate center...
Well, it seems that Hynes values his head enough to wear a helmet while he plays, and in case you haven't noticed, that is virtually taboo in pro hockey. This masochistic spirit has spread to the point where Teddy Green has permanently doffed his padded chapeau and exposed his plated head to the sticks and fingernails of his WHA counterparts...
...which argue that every housewife can find happiness by pampering and submitting to her husband. Total Woman, with one pink rose on its cover, had few ads or reviews when it appeared in 1973 from the venerable religious publishing house of Fleming H. Revell, but a housewives' grapevine spread its message until sales reached a phenomenal 3 million copies (and still climbing). Total Joy is already moving in the same direction-177,000 hard-cover sales...