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New research indicates that tobacco smoke is far more damaging to women than to men.Dr.

Albert Polito, the director of the Lung Center at Baltimore's Mercy Medical Center, said it's a mystery that remains unsolved."Estrogen is much higher in women.

Is that something that promotes lung cancer in women?

We still don't know the answer to that question," Polito said.

Women are 1½ times more likely than men to develop lung cancer, even when they smoke fewer cigarettes...

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BRODY Published: March 21, 2006 Dr.

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Karnofsky was a brilliant oncologist working hard at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to provide the best possible therapies for cancer patients.

My mother, who died of ovarian cancer in 1958, was one of them.

And while he could not save her, we were ever so grateful for the caring way he treated her.

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JT Archives MOBILE Home > News Asbestos-affected apply for relief But window narrow for some state funds for victims People suffering from asbestos-linked diseases and those who lost relatives to such illnesses began filing applications Monday for government financial aid prior to the coming into force next week of a relief law for victims.

Relatives of an asbestos-linked fatality apply for state benefits at the Osaka branch of the Environmental Restoration and Conservation Agency.

The applications were submitted to labor standards inspection offices and other governmental entities nationwide.

The law was passed in the aftermath of revelations starting last June that many workers at a factory in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, had died of asbestos-linked diseases, and that nearby residents, too, had health problems apparently caused by the material.

Such woes were said to be just the tip of the iceberg.

Subsequent reports about asbestos-linked health problems prompted the government to p...