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Children in and around Boston can hope to receive more than just a lump of coal in their stockings this year thanks to the Phillips Brooks House (PBH) annual Holiday Gift Drive. The drive, which aims to collect over 1,000 gifts, began yesterday when PBH staff placed collection boxes across campus at prime spots including Memorial Church and the Freshman Dean’s Office. The two-week drive will end on Dec. 14, when the boxes will be collected and sorted, and eventually distributed to various non-profit organizations around Boston. “This drive plays...
Brian Place didn't think about breast cancer when he found a lump near his left nipple. He thought about rugby. The lump, he figured, might be an injury from colliding with another player...
Place's doctor didn't think much of the lump either, but recommended a mammogram nonetheless. After that came an ultrasound of the breast and a biopsy, and then, finally, a diagnosis: breast cancer. "I was completely numb," says Place, 41 at the time. "I let my colleagues know," he says - mostly men, as he's a communications technician for the Royal Air Force in Britain. "They were as dumbfounded as I was." Even at his local breast clinic, when Place would arrive, he says, some staff assumed he was accompanying a female patient...
Survival rates for men and women are similar, adjusting for stage of the disease at diagnosis - but men are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage. That's probably because women undergo regular screening, Korde says. In men, "because it's not on their radar, [a lump] might not be something they get seen immediately." In men, as in women, treatment usually includes surgery followed by some combination of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and - because almost all men with breast cancer have tumors characterized as hormone-receptor-positive - hormone treatment...
...would have to file receipts from their events before the University would reimburse spending. But the College reversed its position later in the week when Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson announced that HoCos would continue to receive the $4,500 as an up-front lump sum each semester...