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...work space. On learning that she had won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, Wit, the Atlanta kindergarten teacher's immediate response was to keep cleaning her classroom. Edson wrote Wit in 1991, when she was working at a bicycle shop. The unsentimental story of a woman dying of ovarian cancer wended its way through various regional theaters before ending up off-Broadway six months ago. Edson, 37, says she has no firm plans to write another play and remains dedicated to her current work. She did celebrate: just champagne and pizza, though. After all, she said...
...cervix over the past five decades. Pap smears that detect abnormal cells in the cervix before they become malignant have contributed to a 75% drop in cervical cancer since the 1950s. Wider use of birth control pills and hormonereplacement therapy (with estrogen and progestin) have decreased the risk of ovarian and uterine cancers. Recent research also suggests that in some cases, a low-fat diet can cut the risk of cervical cancer even further...
CANCER CATCH-22 In a report out last week, scientists found that drugs derived from platinum and used to treat ovarian cancer--the cornerstone of today's treatment--may quadruple a woman's risk of developing leukemia. That's not to say that chemotherapy should be avoided. The odds that an ovarian cancer patient will develop leukemia are still quite slim: only 71 among 10,000 women taking the highest doses for the longest periods became ill with leukemia...
...cancer in their 70s, you face no more risk than anyone else your age. But if your mother and grandmother had breast cancer before they turned 50, you may have inherited a genetic predisposition toward the disease. That's particularly likely if you also have a family history of ovarian cancer...
Researchers have identified two major genes--dubbed BRAC1 and BRAC2--whose mutations dramatically increase your risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Getting tested for these genetic mutations costs as much as $2,400 for the first test in a family and $400 for subsequent tests and is usually not covered by insurance...