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...Breast cancer may not be so strongly hereditary as people think. A new study shows that having a mother or sister with the disease seems only to double a woman's risk of getting it herself, rather than tripling it, as earlier studies had suggested...
...approved a new drug for treating the terrible suffering caused when breast or prostate cancer spreads to the bone. Called Metastron, the drug kills the pain of the cancer (though not the cancer) with radioactive strontium-89 delivered by injection. Metastron works better than narcotics for many patients, and a single shot lasts up to six months...
...combination of the antibody, acting as a guidance system that homes in on tumor cells, and doxorubicin, as the lethal payload, knocked out many kinds of advanced cancer in mice, including colon, lung and breast tumors that had spread to other organs. In earlier animal experiments, researchers were able to cure only those cancers that had not been growing very long or that had not metastasized. "One of the problems that have held back the field for a long time is that we were never sure that well-established solid tumors could be eliminated," says Dr. David Scheinberg, chief...
...firstborn, in an accident. For decades she has told no one, not even her other children, and she cannot bring herself to tell Caldwell's character at the moment when it would most comfort both of them. She does at last acknowledge the undiagnosed lump growing in her breast and the not-so-secret mistress installed by her husband in a pricey condominium. The play is about the women's coping, not their chaos...
...that RU 486 can combat endometriosis, a leading cause of female infertility, and fibroid tumors, a condition that often necessitates hysterectomy. Thus the same drug that can help some women end unwanted pregnancies may enable others to bear children. Assorted studies have found that RU 486 may also combat breast cancer and Cushing's syndrome, a life- threatening metabolic disorder...