Word: nci
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as Clinton was meeting with protesters and proclaiming the next day (Oct. 19) to be National Mammography Day, a dispute was erupting over the government's attitude toward the X-ray tests that are the best means of detecting a breast cancer before it becomes incurable. NCI was considering making a new recommendation: women in their 40s should no longer be given routine mammograms unless there is some reason, like a family history of the disease, to suspect a higher-than-normal risk. While studies have proved the value of the test in women 50 and older, the available...
Before the NCI, research is accepted as definitive, it will have to be validated by repetition. Moreover, the tight focus on pairs of openly homosexual brothers, who are only a subset of the total gay population, leaves many questions about other categories of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. The NCI researchers concede that their discovery cannot account for all male homosexuality and may be just associated with gayness rather than be a direct cause. But authors of other studies indicating a biological basis for homosexuality saluted it as a major advance...
...Harvard women's lacrosse team surprised everyone in 1992, advancing to the NCI finals before falling in overtime...
Remember sophomore Sarah Downing against Maryland in the regular season. Freshman Sarah Winters against Princeton in the NCI semi-finals. Senior Becky Geffen against Vermont. And senior Buffy Hansen all season long...
Stuffing an opponent's offensive rush on the lacrosse field, switching positions in her final year for the field hockey team, quietly leading the Crimson to Ivy championships and NCI tournament bids all came naturally to the South Hamilton, Mass.-native...