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How to get cancer; a[euro]The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within;a[euro] - Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet a[euro]Leaves of Grassa[euro] (1900), 248.(If Symptoms Persist)

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From: Manila Bulletin
Date: 20070218
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Byline: Dr. Jose Pujalte Jr.

WE have heard many heroic stories on how the battle with cancer was fought, won, and more often, lost. But here's a fight no one wants to begin anyway. Like a bomb in Iraq or Lebanon, cancer seems to detonate out of nowhere. Governments have intelligence that methodically seeks out terrorists. In much the same way, we need intelligence too to root out the causes of cancer. We need facts that can save a life, which, as the clichA[umlaut] goes, may be your own.

Top seven reasons to get cancer:

1. Genetic predisposition. What runs in families ...

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