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...Mammograms detect only 75% of invasive breast cancers in women under 50. That's probably because tumors in younger women grow so rapidly that they can go from undetectably small to large between MAMMOGRAM exams...
Like researchers in all fields, I have also known disappointment, boredom, surprise and even irony. One example was especially instructive. The painful reality of cancer has always loomed in the background of my work, because my mother and her mother died of breast cancer. For this reason, my lab studied for many years a virus that causes breast cancer in mice, in hopes of finding relatives of human breast cancer genes. Ultimately, we discovered interesting genes that guide formation of the brain and other organs. But, in this case, they don't appear to be involved in human cancer...
...Women who undergo surgery for BREAST CANCER during the latter phase of the menstrual cycle--days 14 to 30--rather than during the first part of the cycle appear twice as likely to suffer a recurrence of the cancer, researchers have discovered...
...versatility and talent of the class is perhaps illustrated by Greg Wriede. Though he is on the team roster as swimming the backstroke and the individual medley, he has the best team time for the 200-yard butterfly, and has been known to compete in the breast stroke as well...
...received a masters in English from Harvard in 1962 and earned his M.D. from Columbia University. Presently, he is focusing on research for breast cancer and AIDS virus prevention. He will receive a doctorate of science...