Word: umberto
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...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...
...face of these claims, Israeli officials still adamantly asserted that Iraq had planned to build bombs. The main evidence: Baghdad's insistence on being supplied with weapons-grade uranium and the existence of the Italian hot-cell lab capable of extracting plutonium. But Umberto Colombo, chairman of the Italian Nuclear Energy Commission, said last week that producing plutonium in tangible amounts would require extra equipment and technology. Said he: "It is absolutely impossible for these facilities we are supplying to be used to make plutonium for bombs...