Word: breast
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Navy's Mark Heinrich will defend his titles in both the backstrokes, Dartmouth's Kent Whitaker and Todd Taylor will attempt to repeat as kings of the 100-yd. breast stroke and 200-yd. individual medley, respectively, and Yale's Mark Devore will take on the field in the 100-yd. butterfly. Cornell's Paul Steck will seek his third consecutive one-meter diving crown...
...Crimson swimmers set team records in the 50-meter breast stroke. Barbara Niles recorded her best time in 34.86 and Adele Joel hers with...
Henderson said that after radical surgery, there is less chance of cancer reappearing on the patient's chest wall than after simple, less-disfiguring surgery, but radical surgery does not improve the survival rate because cancer has usually spread to other organs before it is detected in the breast...
...evaluation of American, British and Danish follow-up surveys of thousands of women ten to 20 years after they had breast surgery, Fox found that the survival rate of women who had simple mastectomies--removal of the breast--was the same as the survival rate of women who had radical mastectomies--removal of the chest muscle, lymph nodes under the arm and the breast...
...Craig Henderson, assistant professor of Medicine at the Medical School and oncologist at the Farber Cancer Institute, said this week there are 90,000 reported cases of breast cancer each year. Henderson said most breast cancer patients undergo simple mastectomies or modified radical mastectomies, but thousands of women still have the "old-fashioned, disfiguring" radical mastectomy...