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...party in their room, trucking sand into the dorm and blowing up an inflatable pool. The party ended with a splash when too many students jumped into the pool and the floor fell through. When the Cabot dining hall flooded in the 1980s, students dove in and practiced the breast stroke...
...Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, independently invented techniques that extended a common analytical tool called mass spectrometry - that is, sorting by mass - to much bigger and more complex molecules than had ever been possible. Among many other things, their work has led to new diagnostic tests for ovarian, breast and prostate cancers and for malaria, and earned the pair half of the approximately $1million prize...
...Doctors differ over how to address the issue of self-exams with patients. Rebecca Garcia, Ph.D., vice president of mission services at the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, believes self-exams still play an important role in maintaining breast health. "We realize there are limitations to individual screening options, including self-exam," she says. "That's why we advise women to use them - self-exam, doctor exams, mammograms - in concert." For Dr. Blake Cady, director of the Breast Health Center at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, however, the China study simply corroborates his long-held beliefs. "The idea...
...Rather than telling women they absolutely must do exams, Dr. Cady believes doctors should concentrate their energies on mammography, which offers a far more sophisticated overview of breast tissue and can sometimes rule out the scary-feeling benign cysts that send so many self-examining women to their doctors' offices in a panic. "Women who do self-exams conscientiously and consistently should continue," he says. "Women who haven't yet started exams, I tell not to bother...
...says Dr. Cady, is to get a baseline mammogram - the American Cancer Society recommends women start getting mammograms at 40, or earlier if there is a strong family history of breast cancer. After the first screening, women should get mammograms every 2 years - or more or less often depending on a physician's recommendation...