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...meant mastectomy. By the 1980s, studies showed that for tumors that had not spread, all that might be required is a so-called lumpectomy, in which only the mass itself and the immediate surrounding area are cut away, provided that surgery is followed by radiation to destroy any rogue cancer cells. The subsequent need for chemotherapy depends on the degree of spread, the type of cancer and other variables. As more women are being treated for ever smaller tumors, even lumpectomies can be further refined...
...Chemotherapy decisions are similarly dictated by pocketbook considerations. The greater likelihood of ER-negative breast cancer in Africans and Asians means that such drugs as the estrogen blockers are not on the menu of pharmaceutical options. That rules out one of the cheapest and most available breast-cancer drugs in Africa: a $150-a-dose generic version of tamoxifen (and even that would be far too expensive for many women). Traditional chemotherapy may cost $20,000 or more. Merely determining which type of cancer a woman has may require genetic testing, which can add an additional...
...some cases, governments, private hospitals and nongovernmental organizations are all coming together to address such problems. Mexican President Felipe Calderón, recognizing that his nation is falling behind in detection and treatment rates, has now included the equivalent of up to $20,000 for breast-cancer treatment per individual in the national health-insurance plan. The U.S. State Department is working with the government and business community of the United Arab Emirates to expand breast-cancer awareness and treatment in the Middle East. Jordan's King Hussein Cancer Center is becoming a hub for treatment throughout the Arab world...
...early to say if these efforts indeed mean a start toward ending the global breast-cancer crisis. In the rich world, a diagnosis of breast cancer may bring terror, but a terror lightened by hope. Elsewhere that is still not the case. If the developed world can work to globalize wealth, then it should be similarly able to globalize the opportunities for health. At last, a curative army is mobilizing to make that happen. Many women are surely still destined to sicken and die before its work is through, but many more will learn to battle a disease that...
People in the western world remember the streets of Budapest for the brave stand its people took against the Soviet Union in 1956. On Sept. 29 and 30 the streets of Hungary's capital city were home to an uprising against a very different kind of foe: breast cancer, the subject of this week's cover story...