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...Ethnicity as Destiny Of all the things that can determine a woman's chances of surviving breast cancer, perhaps one of the most powerful is the simple matter of race. Most women in the U.S. are of European ancestry, and the majority of those who develop breast cancer are struck by a type that is partly stimulated by exposure to estrogen. This is one reason the disease usually hits in middle age, after 25 or so years of the monthly hormonal surges associated with ovulation and menstruation. Since the cancer relies on estrogen to grow, drugs like tamoxifen and Herceptin...
...Merely detecting breast malignancies in the Asian population may present special difficulties. Asian women tend to have denser breast tissue than other women, and many studies show dense tissue is up to five times as likely to develop malignancies. What's more, such tissue can conceal the disease since both tumors and healthy tissue may show up white on a mammogram. Asian women even draw the short straw when it comes to treatment. Doses of conventional chemotherapy are determined partly by a patient's height and weight, but mounting evidence suggests that certain ethnic groups absorb the chemicals differently. Researchers...
...having Bell's palsy affect who you are today? -Spencer Navejar, Provo, UtahFreshman year in high school is a bad time to have half your face paralyzed, but it helped me develop more of a personality. You have to make fun of yourself, or else you're going to have a really rough life...
...says Rochlen. "But on the positive side, it gives them new opportunity to embrace and enact these dimensions that are good for them and good for their families." It's even good for their emotional health. Coltrane says fatherhood is proving a "safe pathway" for men to develop and explore their nurturing side. "It's not considered wimpy or gay to hug your daughter," he adds. That's something we can all embrace...
...yoga in the U.S., burns off fewer calories than are in three Oreos--about the same as a slow, 50-min. walk. Even power yoga burns fewer calories than a comparable session of calisthenics. And while yoga has been shown to alleviate stress and osteoarthritis, it doesn't develop the muscle-bearing strength needed to help with osteoporosis...