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...unlikely to spot anything suspicious. At 50 and above, as cancer rates rise and some breast tissue becomes more transparent to X rays, once-a-year exams are a good idea. Between the ages of 40 and 49, however, things have never been clear. Early this year the NCI convened a panel to resolve the question. But the group's findings, announced in late January, were more like nonfindings: the mammography decision, the panel said, was between a woman and her doctor...
...developing an HIV-antibody test, identifying proteins that seem to protect some people from AIDS--although it took a decade for the controversy surrounding his role as co-discoverer of the virus to dissipate. After he was officially cleared of charges of scientific misconduct in 1993, Gallo left the NCI to set up his own virology institute at the University of Maryland...
...long and hard and, unlike work in other medical fields, has produced few really dramatic breakthroughs. But patient by patient, tumor by tumor, doctors are beginning to gain ground. "We may not know how to cure most cancers yet," says Dr. Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), "but we do know what we need to do to get there. And that's very exciting...
...last week, CaP CURE, with the help of a star-studded scientific advisory board, had awarded $22 million in grants to hundreds of researchers in the U.S. and abroad--making it the world's largest private source of funding for prostate-cancer research, second only to the NCI. Yet researchers complain that much more financing is needed. A CaP CURE brochure points out that while the number of deaths from prostate cancer is about the same as for aids and breast cancer, the Federal Government provides $1.3 billion for aids research and $313 million for breast cancer but only...
...good, it may actually increase the risk of those diseases among people who smoke or work with asbestos. The National Cancer Institute, which sponsored two newly concluded studies reaching that result, found the findings so important that it called a press conference today to make the news public. NCI said a study involving smokers was halted 21 months early because the damage was so marked. "The message here is, basically, eat your fruits and vegetables," says TIME's Christine Gorman. "You can't get around it." Gorman points out that because laboratory tests had shown that beta carotene slowed...