Annals of Oncology 13:1-5, 2002
© 2002 European Society for Medical Oncology
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The XXX stories of the year 2002: about a footballer’s intimate dimensions and a human side to Brazilian prisons |
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Those who may feel offended by macho stories related to sexual matters should skip this. But the first was reported in a dreadfully serious newspaper, the Tribune de Genève of October 25, 2001 by Barbara Babil, and the second in all Brazilian and Mexican newspapers. Both are certainly a less dignified mention of a magnificent country which was already in the news of December thanks to major exhibitions of its art in New York. The first story tells us that Manoel ‘Garrincha’ dos Santos died in 1983, 49 years old, from liver failure due to an excessive absorption of sugarcane derivatives with high alcohol content, i.e. cachaça or pinga. Some might remember that Garrincha was with Pelé one of the most famous members of the Brazilian World Champion team of 1958 and 1962. Long after his death, in 1995, a biographer disclosed that not only did he have remarkable ability
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It is about patents and market opportunities indeed, not patients |
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Generics again... |
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The French approach to control of health expenditure and European denomination inconsistency |
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Good quality information for the patient and the public: a new ESMO initiative |
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Nobel prizes: is it not ‘more of the same’? |
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Perhaps not everyone knows that... |
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