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...based guidelines for monitoring the return of colon cancer. The report, which is based on a review of 20 years of data, is bound to stir up controversy, however, because it suggests a minimalist approach for patients with no new symptoms. Doctors must always ask themselves whether a given test will do their patients any good, says Dr. Al Benson, the panel's co-chair and a medical oncologist at Northwestern University in Chicago. After all, he notes, "some of these tests are not entirely benign...
...other tests received qualified endorsements. The CEA test, which detects as many as 80% of colon-cancer recurrences, measures the amount of carcinoembryonic antigen, a protein found in the blood that is often produced by tumor cells. Regular proctosigmoidoscopy, which looks directly at the rectum, is recommended for patients with rectal cancer who have not undergone standard treatment with radiation...
...TESTING THE WATERS Don't assume bottled water is always cleaner or safer than tap, warns an environmental advocacy group. The Natural Resources Defense Council tested 1,000 samples of 103 brands and found that while the quality of most samples was fine, at least a third had levels of bacteria and chemicals that exceeded the industry's own purity guidelines. Nearly a quarter violated California's stringent standards for chemicals such as arsenic. The industry stands by its brands; so, it seems, does the government. Federal agencies, says the NRDC, don't test bottled water as frequently as they...
...beautiful but noticeably different boys and raising them for three months, during which time they shared the same crib, the same swing, the same parents. Then when a black couple came forth claiming to be the biological parents of one of her twins, she faced a truly Solomonic test of love...
...mind reels. Like thousands of women my age, I'm intimately familiar with the emotional roller-coaster ride that is in-vitro fertilization. Four years ago, my husband and I were blessed with our own test-tube babies--beautiful girl twins who are equally delightful but totally different. One looks just like me; the other bears little resemblance. Are they both mine? Were my eggs placed in the right drawer? In the right Petri dish? Fertilized by the right sperm? Is someone else raising one of my children? Is ignorance bliss...