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...SAVINGS PLAN. This plan allows you to put away as much as $268,000 per child, gradually or in a lump. The money grows tax deferred, and withdrawals are tax free starting this year through at least 2010, the year the Bush tax law expires. You may also get a state tax deduction if you contribute to your state's plan...
...left out one critical consideration: the cost of treatment. When a mammogram or breast exam reveals a lump or calcification, how does an uninsured woman pay for a sonogram or biopsy, let alone surgery and radiation or chemotherapy? What good is early detection if you can't afford treatment? JUDITH PLAYER New York City...
...controversy--and whether they need to keep their next mammogram appointment--it helps to have a little background. The most important thing to keep in mind is that the debate is about mammograms used to screen healthy women. Researchers are not talking about mammograms that are ordered after a lump has been discovered. Nor are they talking about women previously treated for breast cancer or those who are at high risk because of, for example, a strong family history of the disease...
...eliminate mammograms from the medical regimen could have deadly results. "The difference between treating women with cancer found via mammogram and cancers they've found via self-exam is tremendous. If you're depending only on self-exams or clinical exams, you're relying on palpation (feeling a lump with your fingers) to find tumors. And the problem with that is by the time a tumor palpable it's often spread to lymph nodes, and therefore more likely to be fatal...
...mean the best deal. Shipping costs, which aren't always displayed, can quickly eat up any savings. And if a discount merchant has a poor rating or doesn't have the product in stock, that low price flashing onscreen will do you as much good Christmas morning as a lump of coal in your stocking...