Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following the successful strategy of the red-ribboned AIDS lobby, breast- cancer victims and their supporters have become a powerful political force over the past year. The National Cancer Institute plans to spend $263 million in 1994 combatting the disease, 34% more than in 1993. But while the government's commitment is growing, setting a rational breast-cancer policy is becoming problematic. Controversy rages over what is a reasonable amount of money to spend and how it should be spent...
Even as Clinton was meeting with protesters and proclaiming the next day (Oct. 19) to be National Mammography Day, a dispute was erupting over the government's attitude toward the X-ray tests that are the best means of detecting a breast cancer before it becomes incurable. NCI was considering making a new recommendation: women in their 40s should no longer be given routine mammograms unless there is some reason, like a family history of the disease, to suspect a higher-than-normal risk. While studies have proved the value of the test in women 50 and older, the available...
...demands of breast-cancer lobbyists are growing even though the disease receives more government funds than other forms of malignancy, including lung cancer, which kills more women each year. One justification is that while the causes of lung cancer (chiefly smoking) are well understood, the causes of breast cancer (diet, genetic makeup or exposure to pollutants?) are still mysterious. Even so, no one can guarantee that more money will bring a quicker cure. "People say that the money will save lives, but that's not necessarily true," says Ann Flood, a sociologist at Dartmouth Medical School. "It's not like...
...maybe we are. Researchers report in the current Nature Genetics that they may have isolated a gene linked to hereditary forms of breast cancer. If confirmed, the results could help lead to a better understanding of the disease -- and more effective weapons against...
...After reviewing eight studies, the National Cancer Institute concluded that routine mammograms save lives only when performed on women over age 50 or on women who have a family history of breast cancer...