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After reading that Elizabeth Edwards is living with metastatic breast cancer, I have to warn women that cancer still kills [April 9].While treatments have improved greatly, without early detection of the first onset or of recurrence, cancer remains deadly. I urge all women to listen to the subtle messages your bodies send. Challenge your doctors, and do not be too afraid or too busy to make an appointment for an examination. Fund-raising commercials and cancer-center advertisements show smiling, apparently healthy patients who seem to have beaten the disease. We are still engaged in battle. Early diagnosis...
...took in Kazakhstan before watching the launch of a Russian rocket ship carrying her friend, billionaire Charles Simonyi, and two cosmonauts into orbit on a 13-day journey to the International Space Station. For Simonyi's trip, Stewart packed meals that included quail roasted in Madiran wine, duck breast confit with capers and shredded chicken parmentier...
...seemed almost too easy--and it was. In 2002 the quick pharmaceutical fix was all but snatched away when a large government study found that women taking hormones actually increased their odds of heart disease and that they put themselves at greater risk of breast cancer, stroke and blood clots. Women suffering with serious menopausal symptoms would simply have to balance the dangers and the benefits of the hormone treatments...
Reassuring--or at least illuminating--as all these findings are, hormone therapy is still a gamble. Even in women taking the treatment who were less than 10 years from the onset of menopause, there was a 77% higher risk of stroke and a 19% higher risk of breast cancer. That's why doctors urge those who take hormones to have their blood pressure checked and get regular mammograms. Aging may indeed never be easy, but once in a while it at least gets a little less confusing...
...Oncologists are also excited about a new generation of tests that enable doctors to do a better job of matching the treatment to the tumor. Oncotype Dx, introduced in 2004, looks at 21 genes in biopsied tissue to determine whether or not chemotherapy will be helpful for early breast cancer patients with recent diagnoses. At Duke University, molecular geneticist Joseph Nevins is testing a similar gene-based test for lung cancer. Researchers are aiming for tools that will tell them not only whether chemo is needed but also which specific drugs to use. Such a screen already exists for Herceptin...