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TRIHALOMETHANES: Ironically, these compounds are by-products of the chlorine used to kill waterborne pathogens. The N.R.D.C. estimates that these chemicals may cause more than 10,000 bladder and rectal cancers a year...
...four American- born girls, now in their 30s. While the daughters follow the quiet ambition fed them at birth -- to be unostentatiously extraordinary -- the mothers fret and fuss. You're not a good enough pianist; you're too proud about your gift for playing chess. "I'd rather get rectal cancer" than have you marry that Caucasian. And look at the top bedroom in this pricey home he built for you: "A million dollars, and the walls are still crooked." (In fact, the guys are relentlessly nerdy; this is a woman's movie, start to finish.) The daughters wonder what...
...blood test to detect prostate cancer in its very earliest stages works far better than old-fashioned, unpleasant rectal examinations. In a recent study the newer method, called a prostate-specific antigen test, detected almost twice as many tumors as a manual exam...
Everyone agrees that PSA tests should be given in tandem with rectal exams. But what if the tests seem to contradict each other? It is not unusual to have a PSA level in excess of four-billionths of a gram per milliliter and a rectal exam that reveals nothing. In that case, the next step might include further observation, an ultrasound exam or even a biopsy, a procedure in which bits of tissue are removed from the prostate and examined under a microscope. Should men with high PSA levels undergo expensive, anxiety-producing biopsies year after year to make sure...
...about saving a life. "Five years ago, I would not tell a man who came into my office to have a PSA test," says Dr. Perinchery Narayan, chief of urology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco. "I would say, 'Let's do a digital rectal exam, and if everything's fine, we'll do another next year.' Today when any man 50 or older comes into my office, I'll sit down with him and tell him about prostate cancer and advise that he get a PSA test." For too long, there were no options left...