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...Last year, the money raised from this fundraiser paid for horseback riding lessons for a nine-year-old girl with ovarian cancer," Heyden said...
Researchers have evidence that the gene BRCA1 suppresses tumor growth in breast and ovarian cancers. When BRCA1 is defective, it makes women susceptible to those cancers. The finding opens a window for new therapy...
...YOUR STORY, HEALTH NET'S LYLE SWALlow defended the HMO's rejection of a proposal to study ovarian cancer as a decision required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Swallow argued that if Health Net researched ovarian cancer, this law would obligate it to allocate similar resources to other diseases. As one of the principal drafters of the ada and a practicing attorney with extensive experience in disability law, I can tell your readers that Swallow's conclusion is flat wrong. Nothing in the ada requires a company that spends money to find a cure for one disease to expend...
Recently, for instance, Health Net rejected a proposal to set aside money to study ovarian cancer, arguing that such an investment might leave the company vulnerable to a charge under the Americans with Disabilities Act that it was discriminating against people with other diseases. "If we put money into ovarian-cancer research and word gets out, then it isn't going to be long before aids groups or prostate-cancer groups start having a field day," says Lyle Swallow, Health Net's cheerful associate vice president for legal services. "I didn't like having to give that advice...
...Before 1990] great strides were being made on prostate cancer, but the diagnosis of ovarian cancer was the diagnosis to die," Slaughter says...