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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like develop ulcers and get cancer...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...course, a woman's wealth does not in and of itself increase her risk of developing breast cancer. But what about the lifestyle that money brings? That's the question researchers asked themselves in deciding to examine the middle-to-high-income Boston suburb of Newton, Mass., where the living is relatively easy - and the incidence of breast cancer is 13 percent higher than the statewide average. Comparing Newton's wealthy and less-well-off areas, the Massachusetts-based Silent Spring Institute found higher rates of breast cancer in Newton's tonier neighborhoods. The researchers, taking into account known risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Cashmere May Cost You More Than Money | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Sixty-five percent of families living in areas with a high incidence of breast cancer hired people to maintain their lawns, versus only 36 percent in the lower-risk areas. Dry cleaning services were used at least once a month by 45 percent of families in the high-risk areas, as opposed to 32 percent in the lower-risk neighborhoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Cashmere May Cost You More Than Money | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Endostatin is the first of several anti-cancer drugs under evaluation which prevent angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels in the body. Doctors hope that, by stopping the growth of blood vessels around a cancerous tumor, the drug can shrink tumors and prevent the cancer from spreading...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Trials For Anti-Cancer Drug Start | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...first endostatin testing on humans will be conducted by Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare--a coalition of Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Two other institutes, one in Houston and another in Wisconsin, will begin testing the drug later in the year...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Trials For Anti-Cancer Drug Start | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

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