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Analysis of X-chromosome inactivation in female patients with multiple head and neck cancers shows that distinct tumors arise from regional clonal growths of phenotypically normal, mutated preneoplastic cells [ 3 4 5 ] , a phenomenon similar to that also observed in liver cancer patients with cirrhosis [ 6 ] . Long-term smoking and alcohol abuse are strongly associated with these clonal growths in the upper aerodigestive tract (reviewed in [ 7 ] ).
A new idea, imported from the West, is to take the galls and other strange growths that occur on tree trunks and carve them into a witty or grotesque design, using the natural shape.
Some of these are ... hauntingly familiar growths, like catafalque trees and hangman trees, as Terry Dowling put it.
Despite suffering stomach cancer, perforations in his lungs and fingernail-like growths on his palms, wrists, and shoulders, Harding was refused a disability pension; Energy Department officials maintained that Harding's health problems were the result of smoking cigarettes and eating "country ham."