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1. Horacio Llamas, the first Mexican-born
player in the NBA, spent two seasons from
1997-98 with what team?
2. How old was Danish swimmer Inge So-
rensen when she won a bronze medal at the
1936 Berlin Summer Olympics?
3. Name the Little Caesars Pizza founder who
was the owner of the NHL’s Detroit Red
Wings and MLB’s Detroit Tigers.
4. The Cincinnati Suds, Milwaukee Schlitz,
Kentucky Bourbons and Cleveland Stepien’s
Competitors were professional teams that
played what sport in the late 1970s and early
1980s?
5. Name the former ESPN sportscaster who
served as the New York Yankees’ radio play-
by-play announcer from 2002-04 before
joining the Los Angeles Dodgers’ radio and
TV broadcast booth in 2005.
6. What Cuban baseball player helped the 1965
Minnesota Twins to a World Series cham-
pionship and was named American League
MVP that year?
7. Calbert Cheaney scored a Big Ten Confer-
ence career record 2,613 points playing for
what college basketball team from 1989-93?
Answers:
7. The Indiana University Hoosiers.
5. Charley Steiner.
3. Mike Ilitch.
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UNDERSTANDING THE ASSOCATION
BETWEEN ‘THE PILL’ AND CANCER
DEAR DR. ROACH: I want to point out a
serious health concern. My daughter turned 40
last year and got a mammogram that came back
with a shocking diagnosis of stage 3 microinva-
sive carcinoma. She underwent three surgeries,
the last of which was a double mastectomy.
I read that cancer incidence increases with
hormone usage that is greater than five years in
a row. My daughter’s doctor prescribed “the pill”
to her for much greater than five years and never
even warned her of the risk.
How many other women are unaware of
the risks? In many cases, these women are busy,
young professionals as my daughter is. They are
using the pill because it is so easy. Please warn
them and their parents. -- M.R.
ANSWER: The association of combined
oral contraceptives with breast cancer is contro-
versial. Many large studies, such as the Nurses’
Health Study, didn’t find an association between
“the pill” with breast cancer, either while a wom- in the veins. Taking in excess salt worsens this
an is using it or after she stops.
There have been some studies that have
shown an increase in risk, but the magnitude
of the risk is small. In a large Danish study, the
6. Zoilo Versalles.
overall increase in risk was about one additional
4. Men’s slow-pitch softball.
2. 12 years old.
case of breast cancer in 8,000 women taking the
pill for a year. For women under 35, the risk was
one case in 50,000 women per year. The stud-
ies that showed a risk for breast cancer did not
show an increased risk when women took them
for longer.
Oral contraceptives certainly have risks.
October 2025
Blood clots are more common among users.
They have side effects that can be very bother-
some and sometimes prevent women from us-
ing them. However, there is an overall improve-
ment in mortality risk among users because
even in 2025, having a baby puts a mother’s life
at risk, and oral contraceptives are effective at
preventing pregnancy.
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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a healthy male,
age 65. I get 7-8 hours of sleep most nights, but
during the night, I typically wake up three to
four times with a very full bladder. So, I use the
bathroom, then return to bed.
My question is, where do my kidneys get
all the water to make so much urine? I’m not
drinking during the night, and I don’t drink
anything before I go to sleep. Where is it coming
from? This does not happen during my waking
hours. -- B.F.
ANSWER: When you drink or even eat food
with a high water content, this fluid will be ab-
sorbed into your blood, but it takes time. Once
it’s in your blood, it will then be filtered by your
kidneys to make urine, but this, too, takes time.
In general, I tell my patients to stop drink-
ing 4 hours or more before bedtime. People who
have kidneys that aren’t at 100% function may
need an even longer time so that they can uri-
nate all the fluid out.
There are other considerations. Many men
and women over 60 develop swollen legs during
the day due to leaky blood vessels and valves
problem. The fluid will go back into the blood
overnight, and it can easily be enough fluid to
fill the bladder. Compression stockings can re-
duce the amount of fluid in the legs.
Finally, the body has a system for reducing
urine output at night (the anti-diuretic hormone
is secreted at night to prevent you from having
to get up), and in some people, this system fails.
The hormone can be given nasally in these cas-
es, but since it can affect blood sodium levels, it
needs to be used very judiciously.