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DIED. Howard Greenfield, 49, pop-rock lyricist whose hits with collaborator (and high school buddy) Neil Sedaka included the 1975 Grammy winner Love Will Keep Us Together as well as Stupid Cupid, Calendar Girl, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do and Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen; of a brain tumor; in Los Angeles...
...widow of renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould has sued three doctors at Harvard-affiliated hospitals for allegedly failing to detect a tumor that led to his death...
...them. President Reagan's "pimple," and a similar growth on Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon's l-in.-sq. tumor, a method called microscopically controlled surgery was used. The process calls for the removal...
...royal couple spent nearly 20 minutes with the crowd, with Diana paying special attention to a group of handicapped children. One of them, 16-year-old Jonathan Lollar of Ocean Springs, Miss., got his dearest wish. Blind and suffering from an inoperable tumor, Lollar was enabled by the Make-a-Wish Foundation of America to come to Washington to meet the Princess. He was not disappointed. Diana was offered flowers and gifts, which she, like a practiced quarterback, deftly handed off to a lady-in-waiting behind...
...section of the colon. These bean-shape structures act to screen the lymph, a watery fluid drained from between the body's cells, for bacteria and abnormal cellular matter. The absence of cancer cells in the nodes suggests that any cells that may have been shed from Reagan's tumor had not reached the bloodstream or the lymphatic system, although Rosenberg conceded that doctors could not be certain of that. By either route, cancer cells can be transported to other parts of the body, where some of them may lodge, multiply and form new tumors...