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Survival rates for men and women are similar, adjusting for stage of the disease at diagnosis - but men are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage. That's probably because women undergo regular screening, Korde says. In men, "because it's not on their radar, [a lump] might not be something they get seen immediately." In men, as in women, treatment usually includes surgery followed by some combination of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and - because almost all men with breast cancer have tumors characterized as hormone-receptor-positive - hormone treatment...
...spite of dangers such as the murky outlook for the U.S. economy. The CSI 300, a benchmark index for China stocks, has nearly quadrupled in the past year, while India's Sensex index is up 35% since January. Even Nigeria's stock market, a relative newcomer to the radar screen of global investors, has jumped almost 60% in 2007. (The value of stocks listed in Nigeria is now almost double that of shares listed in Argentina, even though Argentina's economy is far more developed and twice the size of Nigeria's.) Worldwide, the total value of shares from...
...We’re still forming our identity within the Harvard campus. I think that’s why we’re not really on people’s radar...
...meant an unexpectedly clear path to the field for freshman third-string quarterback Collier Winters. With first-stringer Liam O’Hagan going down with a shoulder injury last weekend, the newbie is now on deck, and he’s certainly on Murphy’s radar as a capable hurler to step in and make a few plays...
...came on my radar in the early '60s. I saw him on stage in Virginia Woolf, where he was Nick, a cocky young professor whom an older college couple (Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen) have fun unmanning on their way to their own, more melancholy accommodation with reality. He also made an impression in a big movie, the political drama Advise and Consent, as a snaky, pre-Cheney Wyoming Senator, trying to blackmail a colleague for an early brush with homosexuality. In my innocent appreciation, I didn't think he was good at playing bad guys; I thought...