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With a computer, of course. The NCI has developed a program that enables a woman, in conjunction with her health-care provider, to calculate her own risk of developing breast cancer by answering a series of questions about her medical and family history. You can order the program, which is formatted on a regular 3 1/2-in. floppy disc (available for Windows or Mac), free at cancertrials.nci.nih.gov or by calling 800-4-CANCER. You'll probably have to wait a few weeks to receive it, since the NCI has already mailed out most of the copies it had on hand. Zeneca...
...essence, the risk disc determines whether or not you would have been eligible to take part in the NCI trial. Participants had to demonstrate at least a 1.7% risk of developing breast cancer over the next five years. On average, theirs was twice that. An important fact to note: this percentage is not the same as a woman's lifetime risk of developing breast cancer, which is naturally higher...
...attacks. More boomer selfishness? Maybe not. If science insists on getting more mileage out of the engine and prolonging our lives--thus allowing us to work into our 70s--what's wrong with maintaining the chrome and fenders? "We expect medicine to deliver that," says Susan Coleman, president of NCI Consulting, a New Jersey adviser to drug companies...
...most extensive prospecting efforts is the National Cancer Institute's, which is focusing on screening plants for compounds active against the AIDS virus and nine major types of cancer. Since 1986, the NCI has received samplings of thousands of different species from ethnobotanists as well as such institutions as the New York Botanical Garden, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the University of Illinois at Chicago...
...editorial in the NCI journal last week tried to put the drinking-water problem in perspective. It pointed out that at the highest levels of MX found in U.S. water supplies, the additional lifetime cancer risk was only 2 in 1 million. But it encouraged further investigation of the effects of MX and other chlorination by-products, and last week the National Institutes of Health announced that it was launching a two-year study. The NCI editorial also warned about the perils of abandoning drinking-water chlorination too hastily. It noted that when Peru did that in 1991, some...