Word: breasted
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This frightening statistic, presented by Nancy Brinker in her 1990 autobiography of one woman's struggle against breast cancer, brings home the staggering reality of the disease--a disease which remains second only to lung cancer as the major cause of cancer deaths in women...
...malady claims the lives of 46,000 women each year and drastically alters the lifestyles of 182,000 others who contract the disease. One in every nine women is predicted to develop breast cancer before...
Scientists at Harvard and elsewhere have gained some insight into the mechanism of the disease, but while the five-year survival rate of women with breast cancer has risen from 78 percent in the 1940s to 93 percent today, the disease still baffles scientists who attempt to explain its origins, and a cure remains a distant goal...
Medical School Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Stephen H. Friend and his colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) hope to find a definite genetic link to the development of breast cancer...
BRCA1, a gene believed to suppress tumor development, has recently been linked to breast cancer. Altered forms of BRCA1, which occur in one woman in 200, prevent it from functioning properly, and tumors can begin to grow. Another gene, p53, has also been determined to be a useful indicator of many cancers, including breast cancer...