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Each year more than 100,000 American women are told that they have breast cancer. For nearly 9 out of 10 of them, the treatment is almost worse than the disease: mastectomy, or total removal of the breast and sometimes the underlying muscle too. Doctors have long argued over whether this disfiguring surgery is really necessary. Now the results of a long-awaited federal study suggest that for perhaps half of the patients...
...study, published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, compared the results of mastectomy with a far less radical operation called lumpectomy, in which only the breast tumor and a small amount of surrounding tissue are removed. The research involved 1,843 patients, each of whom had a tumor that measured no more than 4 cm (or about 1 1/2 in.) in diameter. The participants agreed to be assigned randomly to three different treatment groups. About one- third underwent a mastectomy, one-third had a lumpectomy, and another third received radiation treatment in addition to a lumpectomy...
...season before last, after the royal Celtics suffered the first four- game sweep in their play-off history, against the Milwaukee Bucks, distinguished First Substitute Kevin McHale puffed out his ostrich breast in the locker room and declared for the average player, "I can walk out of here with my head held high." But Bird spoke for himself, bitterly: "I'm gonna go back home this summer and work harder on basketball than I ever did before." Last year Boston achieved its 15th world championship, and Bird was the MVP of the tournament as well as the season...
Harvard returned to Cambridge with only three individual victors. Freshman Molly Clark captured the 100 and 200-mter breast stroke, sophomore Susan Harris notched a victory in the 1000-meter freestyle, and senior standout Jennifer Goldberg captured both diving events...
...increased risk of heart disease, a shorter life-span, and an unusually high risk of developing respiratory disorders, arthritis and certain types of cancer. A severely obese woman, for example, has five times the normal risk of developing cancer of the uterine lining and a heightened risk of breast and cervical cancers. Men who are significantly overweight have an increased chance of developing malignancies of the colon, rectum and prostate...