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...diabetes to heart disease--and to devise exquisitely sensitive diagnostic tests. It will help pharmaceutical companies create drugs tailored to a patient's genetic profile, boosting effectiveness while drastically reducing side effects. It could change our very conception of what a disease is, replacing broad descriptive categories--breast cancer, for example--with precise genetic definitions that make diagnosis sure and treatment swift...
...pathologists use the location of a tumor in the patient's body and its appearance under a microscope to determine what sort of malignancy is involved. It works often--but not always. Melanoma, for example, starts out as a skin cancer but may end up in the lung or breast, where it can be much more damaging than primary lung or breast cancer...
...interview in the not-so-distant future, a prospective employer shook your hand, walked into a lab and used the traces of you skin to evaluate your life span and your overall cost to the company's health insurance coffers? And let's say you were predisposed to developing breast cancer - how could you be sure your employers weren't denying you a job because you came up a loser on their genetic cost-benefit scale...
...least, mammograms (combined with self-exams) are the best bet for early detection. If you're a healthy woman, 40 or older, be sure to get a mammogram once a year and check your breasts every month. But also keep an eye out for research news that could change the nature of your next breast exam...
...this narcissism or catharsis? It's hard to tell the difference nowadays, but several VTV veterans explain their decisions to bare all in the language of therapy and personal growth. Survivor contestant Sonja Christopher, 63, was already a survivor--of breast cancer--and signed on as a way of moving on. "I had been through a lot in the past two years," she says. "Following this fantasy, doing this crazy thing, was a way to try to heal myself. It was a survival instinct." "I felt suffocated and trapped in the life I was in," says The Real World...