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...women and their doctors, early detection of breast cancer has always had a crapshoot quality to it. Regular mammograms seem like a wise precaution, but the tests may be expensive and unreliable--and in a very small number of cases, may actually help stir up the very disease they're designed to spot. Neglecting mammography can be even riskier, giving an incipient tumor a chance to take hold and grow. This year the confusion only increased, with the medical community clamoring for clarity just as various cancer advisory groups issued conflicting guidelines...
...good news about the mammography controversy has always been that in certain age groups at least, there is no controversy. Below 40, the incidence of breast cancer is low enough and the density of breast tissue may be great enough that annual mammograms are unlikely to spot anything suspicious. At 50 and above, as cancer rates rise and some breast tissue becomes more transparent to X rays, once-a-year exams are a good idea. Between the ages of 40 and 49, however, things have never been clear. Early this year the NCI convened a panel to resolve the question...
...YORK: Researchers say they have found a molecule that triggers breast cancer. The discovery eventually may enable doctors to head off the disease before tumors develop. The study, published in the April issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, was performed by researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The molecule, mitogen-activated protein kinase, or MAP kinase, is five to 20 percent more prevalent in women with breast cancer than in those without the affliction. Researchers say the molecule's migration into the nucleus of a breast cell causes the cell to begin replicating wildly...
Also at the hearing, FBI Agent James Dougal testified that Geer said Ronald Stafford had fondled the breast areas of one or both girls and had taken one of them into the woods for an hour...
...military obligation. I'm afraid the Army will have a tired, frustrated and resentful pilot, but it will have a pilot. The bond between a nursing mother and her child is stronger than anything I have ever known. I am a former U.S. Air Force captain, and I breast-fed my first son. Other officers may believe Cuevas is "selfish and a disgrace to women in the military," but I think she is demonstrating selflessness and courage. DONNA KRINGLER Midway Park, North Carolina...