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Researchers spotted the two mutated cancer genes--BRCA1 and BRCA2--in 1994 and '95 and immediately realized they were dealing with a nasty pair of characters. Women with just one BRCA gene mutation appeared to have an 85% risk of developing breast cancer and a 60% risk of ovarian cancer...
...Becoming a survivor. A woman's odds for beating OVARIAN CANCER--one of the deadliest forms of the disease--may be getting better. A preliminary study shows that 70% of patients who received a new three-drug combination were disease free 22 months later...
DIED. LAURA NYRO, 49, intense and lyrical singer-songwriter whose free-form musical emotionalism captured for many the passions of the 1960s and 1970s; of ovarian cancer; in Danbury, Connecticut. Her unique blend of folk, soul, gospel and Broadway influenced many artists, some of whom turned her tunes into hits. A brief playlist: Wedding Bell Blues (Fifth Dimension), And When I Die (Blood, Sweat and Tears) and Stoney End (Barbra Streisand...
...Like powder after a shower? Save it for your feet. Research suggests that applying powder or deodorant spray to the genital area can increase a woman's risk of OVARIAN CANCER. The worst offender: the sprays, which may up the odds...
...Char '98), an arch-browed failed villainness named Irma Geddon (Jesse J. Hawkes '99) and a nerdy Bob Marley named Cal Ipsobeat (Robert E. Schlesinger '00). Not to mention the undeniable show-stealer by virtue of costume, Hugh Jegg (Jason R. Mills '99), an enormous specimen of the ovarian persuasion who did a mean Philip Marlowe imitation...