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...research on another type of female plastic surgery is any indication, that post-op happiness may be short-lived. A 2007 study published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery found that 10 years after women get cosmetic breast implants, a disturbing trend emerges: they are nearly three times as likely to commit suicide as other women. With the even more intimate genital surgery, says Tiefer, the potential long-term consequences are troubling. "[Women] are projecting their anxiety about sexuality onto this one thing: 'If only I could get this fixed, then I would feel confident to be sexual,' " she says...
...protect against bone fractures. So about 15% of the women in the placebo group were allowed to continue taking their vitamin D supplements for bone health (some were taking up to 600 IUs per day), which could explain why there was little difference between the two groups in breast-cancer rates. "This is a potential problem that confounds the results of this particular trial," says Dr. Powel Brown, a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and author of an editorial accompanying the study. "But it's not really ethical to tell postmenopausal women not to take vitamin...
Experts wonder whether the trial lasted long enough to uncover any benefit on breast-cancer rates. Breast cancer typically develops over a long period, anywhere from five to 20 years, and researchers believe that vitamin D's effect on curbing cancer-cell growth may be most powerful in the disease's early stages. That means that the cancers picked up in the seven-year WHI study may have already progressed beyond any potential to be influenced by the vitamin D supplementation. "This is an important study, and a well-done study, but the major question of whether vitamin...
...original version of this story misstated that breast cancer is the No. 1 cancer killer among women. In fact, lung cancer is the deadliest...
...latest advances for breast-cancer patients...