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...women facing the trials and terrors of breast cancer, the worst part of the ordeal -- worse even than the possibility of losing a breast -- is the sense that the nightmare is not over even after the stitches heal. Breast cancer strikes 1 out of 9 women in industrialized countries and recurs in a third of all patients within five years of their initial diagnosis and in more than half within 10 years...
...epidemiologist Richard Peto, researchers at Oxford University pooled together the raw data from 133 studies conducted around the world on 75,000 women with operable breast cancer over the past four decades. Using a complex and unusual statistical process, they found that for women with early cancer, tamoxifen boosted 10-year survival rates from 71% to 75%. Although that kind of advance seems incremental, it translates into tens of thousands of lives each year...
...women with somewhat more advanced tumors, the study showed, combining tamoxifen with other therapies greatly improved survival rates. Furthermore, tamoxifen alone, which produces few side effects, reduced the risk of cancer spreading to the other breast...
...foodies this year was fresh scientific evidence that what your mother said was true; veggies really are good for you. One study showed that eating garlic may help lower blood pressure. Other medical surveys suggested a relationship between specific foods and a reduced risk of certain diseases: broccoli and breast tumors, for example, or grapefruit and clogged arteries, soybeans and liver cancer...
...foodies this year was fresh scientific evidence that what your mother said was true; veggies really are good for you. One study showed that eating garlic may help lower blood pressure. Other medical surveys suggested a relationship between specific foods and a reduced risk of certain diseases: broccoli and breast tumors, for example, or grapefruit and clogged arteries, soybeans and liver cancer...