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...Asian women, as well as black women in the U.S. and Africa, are at higher risk of developing a more aggressive form of breast cancer known as estrogen-receptor negative, or ER-negative. That illness strikes an average of 10 years earlier than the other variety and is indifferent to drugs that block estrogen since it isn't fed by estrogen in the first place. Worse, research findings released in June 2006 showed that 40% of premenopausal African-American breast-cancer patients have an even more dangerous form of ER-negative cancer called the basal-like subtype, resistant not only...
...Genes can cause problems of their own - particularly for Asians. Fewer than 10% of American women with breast cancer have a form caused by an inherited mutation in their genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2, which makes them three to seven times as likely to fall ill. BRCA-related breast cancer is more apt to hit before age 50 and to recur in the second breast. In a 2002 study, University of Toronto doctors concluded that because of the relatively early age of Asian breast-cancer patients and because hereditary cancers disproportionately occur in young women, "a high proportion of breast...
...have attracted more mirth than uproar. The senior’s insistence on a “white, 5’6” - 5’9”, young, blonde, attractive, and intelligent” date, and his final stipulations: “No Black, Asian, overweight, or unattractive women please,” if expressed in conversation or with his name attached, would have marked him for life. Yet the fact that life has driven this alleged senior to the exigency of posting on Craigslist makes his words more amusing than appalling. He is racist, sexist, shallow...
Well, no. Despite pressure from Europe and the U.S. for India to use its influence with Burma to help end the bloodshed, Delhi has taken a softly, softly approach to the current crisis for the same reasons China has: potential trade with and influence over the energy-rich Southeast Asian nation. "We are concerned at the situation in Myanmar and are monitoring it closely. It is our hope that all sides will resolve their issues peacefully through dialogue," said External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the single short public statement he has made on the subject...
...social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Despite having grown up in the States, she sometimes has the nagging suspicion that she may be a bit more Fresh Off the Boat than she realized. Follow her attempts to play Alice Walker for Asian America in “The Color Yellow,” which will run on alternate Wednesdays...