Word: tumorous
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...decades the only true weapon against colon cancer has been surgery. If the scalpel could take out the entire tumor, the patient was cured; if not, the cancer recurred. But now, for the first time, researchers have developed a drug therapy that may reduce the high death rate from this form of cancer, which kills 53,500 Americans each year and is the third most common type of malignancy...
...parents can play slightly different roles. For example, children who through a reproductive malfunction receive two copies of chromosome No. 7 from their mother and no copy from their father sometimes suffer from a severely retarded growth rate. Naturally occurring cases of a kidney cancer called Wilms tumor are caused by a missing chromosome. But in almost all cases, the missing chromosome was the mother's, not the father...
...sense they trust me," says Jonathan Licht, a San Diego neurologist. "You tell them, 'You're O.K.' They say, 'No, I'm not O.K. I think I have a brain tumor.' Then they keep asking, 'How do you really know...
Sarasin collapsed in his office on April 22, and a tumor was removed from his brain...
...committee--which includes health experts at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the state--was appointed last month after the principal of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) collapsed with a brain tumor. Although spokesperson Albert Giroux said the tumor was probably not related to the school's environment, he added that it had caused panic among the faculty...