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...Patient's Gratitude I read your article on breast cancer with great interest [Oct. 15]. Kenyan Mary Onyango's comment that if you can't travel overseas for treatment, "you just sit and wait for your death," prodded me to respond. A year after learning I had breast cancer, I am once again fit and healthy. Contrary to being urged to go abroad for treatment, I had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation in Nairobi, and I have nothing but praise and gratitude for every person involved in my treatment. Hettie Tooley, ELDORET, KENYA...
...half-Cuban, half-Polish father-in-law - he's one part que pasa, one part kielbasa - loves their cancer-surviving, Castro-despising, Cuban-American third baseman, Mike Lowell. And I can see why. He's as humble a World Series MVP as there has ever been...
...Your article neglected to highlight the significance of breastfeeding, which has been shown in several studies to help protect mothers against breast cancer. For every 12 months a woman breastfeeds, her risk of breast cancer decreases by 4.3%. Mothers in many societies breastfeed each child for up to five years. The Western pattern of early weaning or artificial feeding correlates with higher breast-cancer incidence; sadly, these practices are spreading to the developing world. Key strategies for combating breast cancer worldwide will be promotion of the current World Health Organisation recommendation that mothers breastfeed for two years or more...
...breast surgeon, I was saddened by the conclusions of your article. Is the answer to this disease's increasing incidence in developing countries really more mammograms and breast health centers? The article presented compelling evidence that breast cancer is primarily a consequence of a First-World lifestyle. It is not inevitable, even in the West, that all women must accept a 1 in 10 lifetime risk of the disease. In light of increasing evidence that the risk of breast cancer can be significantly reduced by simple dietary changes, regular vigorous exercise and reduced alcohol consumption, we as a society...
...cure cancer, we can find the G-spot,” Chen added. “Taking that we’ll probably marry within the Ivy League, I think we tend to pick things up pretty quickly...