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DIED. LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY, 56, fetching photographer of '60s rockers who trounced the hopes of teenyboppers when she wed one of her dreamiest subjects, Beatle Paul; after battling breast cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Their enduring union was the rule-proving exception to short-lived celebrity marriages, with the devoted couple spending just one voluntary night apart in their 29 years together. Linda became Paul's muse (the lovely, long-haired lady of his post-Beatles love ballads) and his sometime singing partner in the soft-rock group Wings. Her passions ranged far beyond the musical: she continued to take pictures...
MEDICAL MIRACLE? Perhaps the most striking of all recent drug news were reports that Evista, Eli Lilly's new osteoporosis medicine, could also be effective in preventing heart disease and breast cancer in older women. Clinical trials of the drug's ability to stave off heart attacks begins in May, with testing of the impact on breast cancer to start later this year. The implications could be huge for Lilly. Carl Seiden, an analyst who follows the drug industry for J.P. Morgan Securities, says sales of Evista as an osteoporosis remedy alone could approach $2 billion...
ANOTHER BOON FOR THE BREAST Just weeks after tamoxifen was shown to prevent breast cancer, early reports raise hope that another drug, raloxifene, may do the same--without increasing the risk of uterine cancer...
...REST FOR THE BREAST Another reason for moms to breast-feed babies: breast milk contains lactadherin, a protein that seems to fight off the virus that causes most infant diarrhea...
These questions will be answered by future research. But what's more important, Fisher believes, is that science has finally demonstrated that breast cancer can be prevented. Most women, especially those at low risk, probably won't go on tamoxifen. But they may well end up taking the next generation of safer, tamoxifen-based drugs, which are already under development, or the generation after that. Until those drugs come along, Visco of the National Breast Cancer Coalition urges women to go slowly. "Wait," she says. "The best thing to do is wait...