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...ongoing controversy about when a woman needs a mammogram," saysTIME's Christine Gormanabout a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study says that women who begin mammography before the age of 50 may not be increasing their chances of early detection of breast cancer. The American Cancer Institute -- a private, non-profit organization -- continues to recommend regular mammographic exams starting at age 40. "The problem for patients," saysTIME's Janice Castro, "is that if there is no scientific basis for early mammography, insurance companies will refuse to pay for it. Any woman who feels...
...albums. The sound track for Boys on the Side, an all-female set featuring songs by Annie Lennox, Melissa Etheridge, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow, hit the Billboard Top 10. Some of these singers are also represented on Women for Women, with part of the sales money destined for breast-cancer research. In September, Rounder Records will release Global Divas, a three-CD set of the premier thrushes in world music; some proceeds will go to the United Nations Development Fund for Women. The Portuguese sextet Madredeus, featuring ethereal vocals by Teresa Salgueiro, gets a handsome showcase in Wim Wenders...
...friend of Worby's, Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh, who set out to penetrate the ambivalences of three accomplished women as they struggle to balance their professional and private lives. Besides conductor Worby, the book includes chapters on ABC television personality Meredith Vieira and Dr. Alison Estabrook, chief of breast surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. But it was the Worby chapter that provoked its own backlash last week, not only because of Worby's frank discussion of her sexual history (and the tattoo emblazoned on her upper right thigh), but because she demystifies the role of first...
...woman decide what path to take in a sea of changing and conflicting information? Evidence strongly indicates a longer disease-free life-span with sustained independence in women on estrogen-replacement therapy compared with those who do not take estrogen. It seems there is an egg-size risk (breast cancer, uterine cancer) compared with a watermelon-size benefit (less heart disease, less disabling osteoporosis). One should never take a medication that has theoretical benefit in the future if it decreases the quality of life in the present. But seeing a hunched-over, frail woman shuffling behind a walker...
Just amonth after a study showed that taking estrogen increases a menopausal woman's risk of breast cancer, a new report finds just the opposite. The study, published in the current Journal of the American Medical Association and based on the medical histories of 1,029 Seattle-area women, found no increased incidence of breast cancer in women taking estrogen. Which study is correct? TIME's Alice Park says it's too soon to tell. "This is another study that doesn't tell us much beyond saying 'these women took estrogen and they didn't get breast cancer,' just...