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...since the kids moved out of the house, but now I am close to being an entrée in an exotic restaurant. Since this new arrival seems to eat constantly, I thought eating a loaf of bread and all the bagels might be endearing, but no. Chewing up the breast pump didn't go over well either. My only hope is to lay low for the next few days and then flatter the alpha male with my usual enthusiasm...
...never before had to deal with the death of someone close to me. Though I’ve had tribulations, they were not life-altering events: My great aunt, whom I did not know, passed away; arguments always subsided and resolved; and my high school volleyball coach recovered from breast cancer after months of chemotherapy. While grief has grazed me in the past, these encounters with almost-tragedies left me unprepared for the present...
...that doctors and patients had believed about the benefits of hormone therapy on its head. The federally funded trial revealed that estrogen and progestin after menopause did not protect women against heart disease, as doctors had previously thought, but in fact increased their risk of heart attack, stroke and breast cancer. After years of recommending the therapy for women well past menopause, doctors then pulled back, prescribing it only for women having the hardest time with menopausal symptoms of hot flashes and night sweats...
...Those include the risk of blood clots, stroke and, over a long enough period of time, breast cancer. It's all about balance, and weighing benefits and risks responsibly, says Manson. For women who suffer from the most intense symptoms of menopause, hormone therapy may be worth the slightly increased risk of these conditions, provided that they don't stay on the hormones for more than five years or so. Last April, another study from the WHI supported just this sort of judicious use. That study found that women who began estrogen and progestin, the most commonly prescribed combination (progestinis...
...growth in distant tissues. Either way, as epithelial cells--closely packed, multilayered cells of which most solid tumors are made--they are oddballs in their new fluid environment. "It's like splitting a deck of cards into red and black suits," says Dr. Daniel Hayes, director of the breast-cancer program at the University of Michigan, about separating these epithelial tumor cells from the blood. "Blood is made up of different tissues, so we look for epithelial cells that shouldn't be there...