Word: breast
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...mention my concern over my frequent need to urinate, which I have assumed to be related to my prostate. As in many men my age, the status of my prostate is top priority, the site of the most common cancer in males. If I were a woman, breast cancer would be of similar concern. In a 25-year-old male, the prostate gland is the size of a grape; in a 50-year-old, it is the size of a chestnut because of its thickened walls. The enlarged gland constricts the urethra that it encircles, diminishing the ability to urinate...
...most nutritionists advise switching to low-fat or skim milk and eating more yogurt and cottage cheese than Haagen-Dazs and Brie. Even skim milk, though, can trigger allergies in some people, including infants, who in any case will get more iron and other key nutrients from breast milk or formula...
Paul McCartney, born in 1942 and destined to become Lennon's songwriting soul mate, seemed a sunnier type: well mannered, level-headed, all that. But he had weathered trauma of his own, losing his mother to breast cancer in his early teens. McCartney encountered Lennon in the logical way, given the times and the two boys' musical interests: on the skiffle scene...
...drug, Herceptin--the first to target a genetic defect in breast-cancer cells--has shrunk tumors by turning off the signal that tells cells to divide. In a study, Herceptin increased survival an average of three months for women with advanced cancer. Researchers hope for more dramatic effects if it's given at earlier stages of the disease. Herceptin might get fda approval as early as this fall...
CANCER CARE Tamoxifen, the anti-breast cancer drug, is prescribed to too few patients. A study finds that it benefits women of all ages with the cancer, not just postmenopausal ones...