Word: breast
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More than any other disease of women, breast cancer symbolizes pain, mutilation and death. The disease strikes 1 woman in 10 and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among females in the U.S., where it has the highest incidence in the world. This year 135,000 new cases will be diagnosed, and the disease will kill 42,000 women. Worse, its incidence is rising: last month the National Cancer Institute reported significant increases during both 1984 and 1985, the most recent period for which figures are available. Equally troubling, deaths from breast cancer among young and middle-aged...
Norsigian argued that male politicians should not control legislation on issues of vital importance to women, such as advertising by tobacco companies, expensive medical technology, health coverage, childbirth, funding breast cancer research, and contraception...
...community health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston: "There is persuasive evidence that a low-fat diet can help prevent, and even treat, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. I'm of the school that holds that low-fat diets also reduce the risk of colon and breast cancer." At the very least, Gorbach notes, vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters, and that alone is beneficial...
Frisch, who works at the Center for Population Studies, conducted yet another analysis in 1985 of more than 5000 college alumnae, some of whom participated in athletics. "The alumni who had exercised in college had less cancer of the breast and reproductive system," she says...
...their estrogen to "non-potent" forms, to which the reproductive organs will not respond. The increase in non-potent estrogen production also means that there is less normal hormone circulating in the blood, and this may lead to a lower risk of estrogen-dependent tumor development, such as breast cancer, Snow says...