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Hormone-replacement therapy, as every woman of a certain age knows, is designed to make up for the body's lowered estrogen output during menopause. But many of these women also know that HRT has been linked--controversially--to an increased risk of breast cancer. Thus the interest in alternative therapies, both...
...While some studies show as much as a 45% reduction in hot flashes, others have found that a placebo can be nearly as effective. Also, whereas the moderate amounts of soy isoflavones contained in food are safe, there are hints that the high concentrations found in supplements may promote breast tumors...
Proof at the genetic level that origin means more than location is coming in. Researchers at Stanford have been studying liver, breast, prostate and lung cancers for clues to their telltale molecular fingerprints. Using microarrays to sense which genes are turned on in sample tissues, says geneticist Charles Perou, the Stanford team has discovered that most of the genes expressed by both normal breast cells and primary-breast-cancer cells are similar, and so are cells for normal lung tissue and lung cancer, normal prostate and prostate cancer, and so on--which should ultimately give doctors biochemical identifiers to guide...
...when I went up to Capitol Hill in May 1987 with the N.A.S. report in hand, I promised that long before the genome project was completed we would have cloned many of the key genes predisposing humans to Alzheimer's or to cancers of the breast and colon, all diseases known to run in families. Happily, time has seen our science so move...
...trailer for herself. Like the ads for a summer action flick, her public persona promises slick, sweaty thrills: At the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards she wore a tiny purple pastie over her otherwise exposed left breast; in the latest Vibe she poses like a plastic blow-up doll, her lips parted suggestively to form a moist pink oval. Unfortunately, behind the getups and the come-ons, the reality is grim: Lil' Kim's new rap album, Notorious KIM (Queen Bee/Undeas/Atlantic), is a bomb. It's the Battlefield Earth of this summer's rap albums...