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...widely heralded test for the breast-cancer gene BRCA1, on the other hand, provides information that gives women many options. Unlike the Huntington's gene, BRCA1 is a "predisposing" gene; it increases vulnerability to cancer but does not make it inevitable. While the gene apparently confers an 85% risk of developing breast cancer and a 40%-to-60% risk of ovarian cancer, women who test positive may reduce that risk considerably, says Mark Skolnick, who led the team at Salt Lake City's Myriad Genetics that isolated the gene. He suggests they adopt a program that includes, among other things...
...essence, cancer is an evolutionary drama played out in one part of the body or another--the lung, the breast, the brain. Over time, a single abnormal cell becomes two, then four, then eight, then 16. Early on, these cells develop a repertoire of "tricks" that confer a survival advantage. Among other things, the tricks ensure that mutation will pile on mutation by shucking off, or silencing, genes that ordinarily monitor replicating DNA for chemical errors. The malignant cells quickly become resistant to the poisons physicians prescribe to kill them. They also acquire the disturbing ability to stimulate the formation...
...Looks like the wonder drug ASPIRIN can't do it all. It may lower the risk of colon cancer and heart attack, but researchers report, in a reversal of previous findings, that the drug does nothing to protect against breast cancer...
...hoop in the driveway. So she plays too. "I just wanted to do what he did," she says now. Soon she is not so little. She grows to 6 ft. 4 in. and becomes the star forward/center of the Connecticut Huskies basketball team. Then she learns her mother has breast cancer. "I began to focus on what I did on the court, because I could control what I did on the court," she says. "I couldn't control what was happening with my mom." Her mother recovered from the cancer, and the daughter went on to lead her team...
...Research indicates that a new type of MRI may allow BREAST CANCER patients to find out almost immediately if their chemotherapy treatment is likely to be effective. The image reveals if the drugs are directly attacking the cancer site...