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Conservative Christians, cancer patients, burn victims and senior citizens, among others, have shown surprising interest. Joanne Martinez, 37, of San Clemente, Calif., bought a Hawaiian-print ensemble to stave off chills during late-night dips. Her mother Norma Suarez, 69, got a suit because her medications make her skin sun-sensitive. "We're both hooked," says Martinez. Meanwhile, Kathleen Petroff, 59, of Helendale, Calif., bought her Splashgear suit for a snorkeling trip, after weight gain from multiple-sclerosis treatment made her old suit unappealing. If not for Sabet's design, she says, "I would have missed swimming with the dolphins...
...just like any other. Tucked in between the carefree yawn of summer and the impending rigors of fall, it straddles a bittersweet block of the calendar, but to Karen Dyer, it is much more than that. Aug. 27, 1994, marked her arduous transition from typical teen to cancer patient. That was the day doctors removed what they thought was a benign cyst above her left hip. Then 15, Dyer learned that her life had changed forever. "It's funny," she says. "My main worry then was losing my hair, of looking different from everyone else. I never thought about dying...
...have sounded naive then, but Dyer was on the right track. Along with some 300,000 other young adults in the U.S., she belongs to the first wave of childhood-cancer survivors to benefit from several decades' worth of research in treating cancer in the young. Now a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Dyer, 28, unlike so many young cancer patients before her, has every expectation of reaching the ordinary milestones in life--graduation, first job, marriage--that most of us take for granted...
...these young adults are doing much more than merely surviving. Their medical histories are rich textbooks for teaching doctors and future patients about how to overcome cancer--not just the initial dangers of the disease but also the late-stage complications of the surgery, chemotherapy and radiation that saved those young lives. "We know that we will see more and more long-term survivors," says Dr. Melissa Hudson of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. "Now we need to monitor them as they age, to understand how we can best help them to preserve and maintain their...
...Until that data is available, women and their doctors should operate under the assumption that a healthy, balanced lifestyle is key to fighting off breast cancer. Says Gapstur: "It's never a bad thing to live a healthy lifestyle...