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...results are based on an examination of the medical records of more than 5,000 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1991 and 1997. According to Dr. Xianglin Du, assistant professor of internal medicine and geriatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and lead author of the study, there was "a clear divergence between recommendations from the National Institutes of Health and what is seen in clinical practice." The NIH guidelines, developed by experts in the field and released in November 2000, found "substantial" benefit from chemotherapy for both premenopausal and postmenopausal women...
...side effects of chemo. These can include impaired thought processes and increased risk of infections, and many older women believe they won't tolerate all of this as well as younger women do. That's a view not shared by many doctors. "For an otherwise healthy older woman," says Du, "the toxicities of chemotherapy should be no different than for a younger woman...
...always read about the contribution of 'patriotic Viet Kieu' in the newspapers," complains Vu Du, a retired technician. "But look at all these fraudsters, getting rich and cheating the government. If we're not careful, we'll lose our country to such people." Thieu's case will only intensify the suspicions. State media has reported that 33 companies, some of them government owned, are being investigated due to their ties to Dong Nam Telecom...
...member Council of Europe, which includes all NATO members except the U.S. and Canada, understands the risk posed by DU. The documentary reports that the Council “called for a ban on the manufacture, testing, use and sale of weapons using depleted uranium and plutonium,” and concluded that the “use of such weapons during the war in Yugoslavia would have ‘long-term effects on health and quality of life...affecting future generations.’” The United States stands alone among its allies in condoning...
...invade Iraq this winter and the Iraqis shoot radioactive missiles and bullets at us, we would surely accuse them of using dirty bombs or even weapons of mass destruction. This hypocrisy is totally unacceptable. The United States must ban DU-tipped weapons immediately...