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...months ago, Liu Lichun didn't know her breast could contain cancer. No one had taught the 40-year-old Chinese woman from Inner Mongolia what the disease was. She'd never heard of a mammogram or mastectomy. It had thus never occurred to her that she would lose her left breast to the mysterious illness nor that such a loss would probably save her life...
...Five years ago, Liu might well have been among them. Breast cancer is the most lethal form of cancer for women in the world. An estimated 1 million cases will be identified this year, and about 500,000 new and existing patients will die from the disease. In the U.S., breast cancer will be diagnosed in 1 in 8 women...
...days before a Harvard medical student was scheduled to take her certification exam, Massachusetts’ appeals court temporarily voided an earlier ruling that would have given her extra break time to pump breast milk. Sophie C. Currier, the MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School (HMS), who is currently nursing a five-month-old infant, will postpone taking the exam until the three-judge appeals panel rules, said her spokeswoman, Alex Zaroulis. Currier cannot graduate from HMS or begin her scheduled residency until she passes the eight-hour licensing exam. “Things...
Recently a woman breast-feeding at a Kentucky Applebee’s was told not to leave in order to breast-feed—talk about “eating good in the neighborhood”—but merely to cover up the twins. What unfurled after that was the first-ever national “nurse-in” at that local Applebee’s to protest the allegedly outrageous actions of the store manager...
Currier said after her Tuesday hearing that the accommodations offered by the NBME—which include a private room, multiple breast pumps, and the option to bring food or drink into the exam room—would create humiliating and even unhygienic testing conditions...