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Died. Susan Hayward, 55, Oscar-winning cinema actress; of a brain tumor; in Beverly Hills. Born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, the red-haired model was fresh out of high school when she was plucked from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post by David Selznick for a screen test. Hayward scored her first break opposite Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939). Mistress of a sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most...
...Malcolm Tweed, 59, a casketmaker from Chula Vista, Calif., visited a general practioner in 1972, complaining about a pain in his right shoulder. The doctor diagnosed his problem as arthritis, ignored a suggestion by a consulting radiologist that "a tumor must also be considered," and gave him 41 costly shots of a steroid drug over a three-month period. As the pain in his shoulder intensified, Tweed consulted an orthopedic surgeon, who X-rayed him and misdiagnosed the problem. Eight months later, an associate of the orthopedic surgeon happened to see Tweed's X rays and identified the illness...
...Nolen, who knows a little anatomy, was not fooled: the surgeon's hands never even penetrated his skin. Nor was Nolen impressed by the results of the operation. The surgeon held up the blob he had been concealing in his hand and told Nolen he had removed a tumor. Nolen, who has removed enough tumors to know what one looks like, recognized the tissue as a lump of fat, probably from a chicken...
Folkman has done research on the tumor angiogenesis factor (IAF) which triggers blood flow release necessary for tumor growth, and Vallee has identified a link between a catalyst in the body and viruses known to cause leukemia in fowl...
...nowhere been noted that Turkish Delight represents a particularly vicious fantasy of sexual retribution. The wife cuts out on the husband-because he likes to copulate too much, she tells him later-and leads a miserable life, moving from one lover to another, looking freakier and acting freakier. The tumor, presumably, is the final punishment for her infidelity and desertion, and allows her wronged husband the priceless opportunity to be magnanimous, to forgive and to cherish. Her death gives him poignant pause, but it is never forcefully indicated that it must have been much rougher...