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Cancer researchers aren't accustomed to breakthroughs, but three years ago, they thought they had scored a big one. That's when scientists revealed they had found and begun mapping the first of two genes that appeared to be behind most cases of inherited breast cancer. Suddenly it seemed possible that a woman's odds of getting the disease might be determined by simply scanning her genetic schematic. Thousands of women in the U.S. with a family history of breast cancer rushed to take blood tests designed to look for the rogue genes. Of those who tested positive, as many...
Researchers spotted the two mutated cancer genes--BRCA1 and BRCA2--in 1994 and '95 and immediately realized they were dealing with a nasty pair of characters. Women with just one BRCA gene mutation appeared to have an 85% risk of developing breast cancer and a 60% risk of ovarian cancer...
Those findings were extremely sobering, but the new studies suggest they were considerably overstated. The 85% figure was derived by sampling women from families that already had a breast-cancer history. Researchers on two of this week's papers tried to determine whether stacking the statistical deck in this manner had skewed the results. When they looked at a broader population of women, the breast-cancer risk, even if a gene mutation was present, fell to 56%. National Institutes of Health geneticist Jeffrey Streuwig, who led one study, does not pretend this new number is the last word, but neither...
While Stage is wary of the "pink chicken," the grilled chicken breast ruled the roost as far as Harvard students were concerned...
...stated that under Wisconsin's welfare program, "mothers must go back to work when their youngest child is 12 weeks old." Did we read that correctly? Forget about the mother's regaining her strength or ensuring her child's well-being by breast feeding; forget about the critical mother-child bonding process. Let's just get that woman behind the counter of the discount store (where she will earn less than the licensed child-care provider she'll require). TRACY AND ELIZABETH HODSON Alameda, Calif...