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When Harvard women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer last winter, her immediate instinct--after recovering from the initial shock, of course--was to keep her condition a secret...
After that night, Delaney-Smith unofficially began her fight on behalf of breast cancer awareness, a battle she waged as she was simultaneously undergoing treatment for her own condition...
Today, with her chemotherapy and radiation sessions finished and a complete recovery within sight, Delaney-Smith continues to work to educate women about breast cancer and raise money to help find a cure for the disease...
...very few large, long-term studies of chemical exposure and puberty in humans. Rogan and his colleagues began with some 600 pregnant women, measuring concentrations of the chemicals in their bodies. When their babies were born, the researchers then measured levels in the mothers' breast milk. Finally, the team monitored the children as they grew and entered puberty...
...anxiety begins when the girls are about eight years old. "Did you notice so-and-so is developing?" one mom whispers to another as they scan their daughters' classmates for signs of breast buds--and reassurance that their own girls are perfectly normal. Maybe it's time for Judy Blume to write a sequel to her 1970 classic about training bras and first periods. She could call it Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret's Mother...