Word: tumor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Joyce Alt, director of nursing at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, which offers 30 different schedules: "Absenteeism has been reduced by 50% and turnover by 55%." One contented M.D. Anderson nurse is Laurie Hendley, 36, who now works two 16-hour shifts on a weekend. Before, she says, "I was working 10%-hour shifts, sometimes four days at a stretch. I couldn't get enough rest...
...study, conducted between 1973 and 1980 by Dr. Umberto Veronesi and colleagues at Italy's National Cancer Institute, involved 701 women with tumors less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter. About half underwent radical mastectomies; the rest had "quadrantectomies," losing only the quarter of the breast with the tumor, plus lymph nodes in the armpit. The partial mastectomy patients received radiation therapy following the operation; since 1976 drug therapy has been given to women in both groups whose cancer had spread to the lymph nodes. The results, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed...
DIED. Daniel Daniel, 91, for more than half a century a leading writer on baseball and boxing and a founder and former editor of Ring magazine; after surgery for a stomach tumor; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Daniel covered baseball from 1909, the heyday of Ty Cobb, until the 1974 World Series, which he reported for the Sporting News, mostly for the now defunct New York World-Telegram and New York World-Telegram...
...while spending every spare moment in the lab. "I did absolutely zero work in other courses," he laughs. But he did enough to get accepted at Johns Hopkins Medical school where he will pursue both an MD and a Ph.D. His research will continue on viruses, this time animal tumor viruses, under the direction of Dr. Dan Nathans, 1976 Nobel Laureate. That's seven more years of school, including summers, and then...more research...
...year in scholarships. Exeter, says Admissions Director John Herney, is looking for brains plus something more. It turns down a number of applicants with high scores. "We are looking for kids who have a certain contagion to their excitement about learning." During a word association test one applicant linked tumor with friends because "they both grow on you." Herney almost shouted, "Take that...