Word: breasted
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...Helene Wilson, the decision to participate in a clinical trial of tamoxifen took no thought at all. Scientists at the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health wanted to know if the drug, used for 25 years to treat breast cancer, could prevent the disease. The question was of more than academic interest to Wilson, 48, a North Wales, Pa., nurse and mother of two. Four close relatives, including her mother and grandmother, had died of breast cancer at an early age. Wilson herself had a history of benign lumps in her breast. She was, her doctor once...
Perhaps now she has been defused. Last week researchers announced that they were halting the study 13 months early. Reason: tamoxifen, they've learned, does indeed prevent breast cancer. It's the first drug ever shown to do so. Said Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the NIH, in announcing the results: "This is a big deal...
More of a big deal than he'd expected, perhaps. Although Varmus and other officials were careful to stress that tamoxifen is a potentially deadly drug with serious risks and unpleasant side effects, that message was all but lost in the initial euphoria. Breast cancer justifiably terrifies American women--so badly that many latched on to the discovery and ignored the downside...
...three archetypes have not whetted your appetite for more Springer, then you are abnormal. Jerry is the reigning talk show king of America, having recently unseated Oprah and her book club. Jerry has tapped into the pulse of the heartland, resurrected the spirit of the circus sideshow and rescued breast-milk fetishists from the social margins...
EQUAL BUT UNEQUAL Even in the military, where living conditions and access to health care are relatively uniform, black women are more likely to die of breast cancer than their white counterparts...