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Huge crush on Maryann as a kid........Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on 'Gilligan's Island,' dies of COVID-19 at 82
Dawn Wells, who starred as girl-next-door Mary Ann in the 1960s hit TV show "Gilligan's Island," died of complications from COVID-19. She was 82.www.latimes.com
Dawn Wells at her Valley Village home, left, and as a member of the “Gilligan’s Island” cast.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles
I wonder if he was a heavy smoker or just was an unlucky person. I know people get lung cancer other reasons than smoking.
...Cigarette smoking is still the single greatest cause of lung cancer, which is why screening recommendations apply only to current and former smokers and why 84% of U.S. women and 90% of U.S. men with a new diagnosis of lung cancer have ever smoked, according to a study published in December in JAMA Oncology. Still, 12% of U.S. lung cancer patients are never-smokers.
Scientists disagree on whether the absolute number of such patients is increasing, but the proportion who are never-smokers clearly is. Doctors and public health experts have been slow to recognize this trend, however, and now there is growing pressure to understand how never-smokers’ disease differs from that of smokers, and to review whether screening guidelines need revision...
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