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...haired, bright-eyed Oklahoman, the prospect of going to Harvard was always more of a casual whim than a concrete goal. Though she enjoyed her visit, Daniels didn’t have her heart set on Harvard and in fact believed she would end up somewhere like Georgetown or UCLA...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ladies of the Dance | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

Fish called Barnaby the “John Wooden of racquet sports,” referring to a legendary UCLA basketball coach...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Legendary Tennis, Squash Coach Dies at 92 | 2/20/2002 | See Source »

...cells develop into DCIS. The good thing about dcis cells is that they haven't spread beyond the milk duct. The bad thing is that they are malignant. "Some people call DCIS precancer, but it's not precancer," says Dr. Dennis Slamon, director of breast-cancer research at the UCLA School of Medicine. "It's preinvasive. It's cancer that hasn't invaded outside the breast ducts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Breast Cancer | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

Herceptin is only a beginning, says UCLA's Slamon, who identified the HER2 receptor. There are bound to be other cancer proteins that pharmaceutical manufacturers can use as targets as they develop new, more selective drugs. "Using a combination of [these kinds of] therapies earlier in the disease could have a dramatic impact on outcomes," Slamon says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Breast Cancer | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...with so many things in medicine, doctors and patients are left making decisions based on incomplete information. "We have to be honest about saying that [routine] mammography may not save your life," says Dr. Patricia Ganz, a professor at the schools of medicine and public health at UCLA. But it can give a woman who discovers she has breast cancer options she might not otherwise have. And who wouldn't want that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Test Or Not To Test? | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

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