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...Results from a ten-year study of 266,000 female factory workers in Shanghai, China, published Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, show the workers who performed self-exams regularly were no less likely to die from breast cancer than the women who never did the exams. Self-exam practitioners were more likely to detect benign breast anomalies than their peers, but there was no effect on the risk of death...
...Does this mean we should all abandon our monthly self-exams? No. But it does mean we need to look at the practice with new, more reasonable expectations. And it also means that women who find the whole self-exam process to be more anxiety producing than reassuring can give themselves a break...
...Doctors differ over how to address the issue of self-exams with patients. Rebecca Garcia, Ph.D., vice president of mission services at the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, believes self-exams still play an important role in maintaining breast health. "We realize there are limitations to individual screening options, including self-exam," she says. "That's why we advise women to use them - self-exam, doctor exams, mammograms - in concert." For Dr. Blake Cady, director of the Breast Health Center at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, however, the China study simply corroborates his long-held beliefs. "The idea...
Opposition to the tests has been particularly determined in Cambridge, where one-third of high-schoolers regularly fail the exam...
...secondary school level, unlike competitor Shannon O’Brien, Reich rightly opposes using the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exam as the sole determinant of whether a student receives a diploma. In addition to promoting decreased class sizes and the importance of attracting talented teachers, Reich has been outspoken about the need for statewide, full-day kindergarten—a welcome change from Acting Governor Jane Swift, who recently vetoed a $28 million state initiative to help local school districts pay for full-day kindergarten...