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...every eight women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer in her lifetime--a statistic that includes my mother. Her cancer was diagnosed more than 10 years ago, and like more and more breast-cancer survivors these days, she's doing just fine. In fact, survival rates have never been higher, thanks to regular mammograms and improved treatments, according to a study released last week in the New England Journal of Medicine in conjunction with breast-cancer awareness month. Nearly 98% of women with early-stage breast cancer today will survive at least five years. Most will live long, full...
...other hand, the incidence of breast cancer is also increasing. An estimated 211,240 cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women this year (and 1,690 cases in men) in the U.S. These numbers have been rising slowly but steadily since 1987, probably also as a result of better screening...
...week, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi set aside his responsibilities as the nation's leader and took up another, more difficult role: that of a grieving husband. Abdullah's wife of four decades, Endon Mahmood, died on Oct. 20 at age 64 after a four-year battle with breast cancer. In a relatively conservative country with a Muslim majority, the couple were known for their public displays of affection, often hugging or bestowing pecks on each other's cheeks. During the funeral, Abdullah, 65, did his best to appear stoic. Wearing a traditional black songkok hat, a high-collared...
...self-anointed compassion queen Arianna Huffington has tried to peddle it. What's significant this time is that some of this softening has slipped into the Republican canon. In the baby-steps department, the Republicans have discussed using the fiscal savings of one bill to help pay for breast-cancer screenings, for instance. But they are also likely to promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup. One congressional group, the Renewal Alliance, which includes such Republicans as House Budget Committee chairman John...
...list of services, including “Doctor” and “foot fetish,” each priced from $25 to $150, according to the police report. Russian endings were “when you have a satisfactory ending of the session between the women [sic] breast,” a later CPD report states, and “Pop the cork” meant ‘anal...