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Back in the 1970s, during the golden days of feminism, regularly examining one's breasts for cancer was a sign that a woman had taken control of her life and health and wasn't dependent on (mostly male) doctors. Since then breast self-exams have just seemed like a smart thing to do. After all, mammograms and medical checkups can't catch all breast tumors. And a little empowerment never hurt anybody...
...Texas, an upscale suburb of Houston, couldn't figure out what was wrong. Every time she went into her bathroom to put on makeup, her eyes started burning. She felt constantly exhausted, her vision was blurry and she had a dry cough that just wouldn't quit. Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, Iler feared the worst. Perhaps after two years of remission, the disease had returned. She never imagined that the source of her troubles might lie buried within the walls of her $300,000 home--or that she and her husband Bruce would be forced to flee...
...debate over patients' rights will never seem dry or academic to me. When a routine mammogram revealed a cancerous growth in my right breast earlier this year, I felt as though I had stumbled into a dark closet during a nightmare. The bad dream became worse when the doctor's office called to tell me that my insurance company wouldn't cover the biopsy I needed. I called the company, and a representative said I had been dropped because I had failed to send in a renewal form--odd, since my premiums were automatically billed to my credit-card account...
...insurer agreed to reinstate my policy and pay for the biopsy, and I thought I had escaped one nightmare. But then the company rejected more of my medical claims. It wanted to place a rider on my new policy canceling all breast-cancer coverage because I had a so-called pre-existing condition--fibrocystic, or "lumpy," breasts, which my doctor had known about and assured me are common and not precancerous. I believe the insurer used the condition as an excuse to reject my coverage. The company argued that I had been dishonest by not disclosing the condition. The argument...
What the new fem foods have in common is that they all trumpet nutrients that benefit women in particular, from the tried and true, such as calcium for preventing osteoporosis and folic acid for staving off birth defects, to sexy newcomers like soy, which is popularly believed to fight breast cancer and relieve the symptoms of menopause, though this is still unproved...