Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study, published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, compared the results of mastectomy with a far less radical operation called lumpectomy, in which only the breast tumor and a small amount of surrounding tissue are removed. The research involved 1,843 patients, each of whom had a tumor that measured no more than 4 cm (or about 1 1/2 in.) in diameter. The participants agreed to be assigned randomly to three different treatment groups. About one- third underwent a mastectomy, one-third had a lumpectomy, and another third received radiation treatment in addition to a lumpectomy...
Cutone, last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year, was diagnosed as having a bone tumor two weeks before the Crimson's first game and underwent successful bone transplant surgery a week later...
BOSTON--Boston Bruins center Barry Pederson has suffered a recurrence of a tumor in the muscles of his upper right arm and will be lost for the rest of the National Hockey League season, the club announced yesterday...
...offers seedlings of his farces: "Alastair . . . at some stage in the evening lost my waistcoat. Audrey made declarations of love to me, and Richard to Elizabeth and I to Olivia. I do not think Black Torry seduced anyone." When Winston Churchill's son is operated on for a benign tumor, Waugh decides, "It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove...
...order themselves tamely and obediently into fiction. There he sits at his desk, staring idly out of the window, listening to his middle-aged frame creak, finding a suspicious bump on his scrotum, brooding about traditional marriage: "battling, shrieking and occupying each other's brains like some terrible tumor until one of them dies." A theme here? Apparently not; he goes on to muse about middle age ("On the whole we are all quite game. It's life itself that seems to be wanting"), about his comical doorman, about whether to crank up an old affair with...