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...often leery of things they haven't seen before. Designers' ideas are thus circumscribed by what manufacturing companies have the skill and inclination to produce. Domeau & Peres can and will produce almost anything. It has worked with established stars such as Andree Putman and such leading lights of the younger generation as Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Elodie Descoubes and Laurent Nicolas, and Christophe Pillet, whose Video Lounge recliner, left, has become the company's unofficial trademark...
...live longer. So I was surprised to read in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine that only 29% of breast-cancer patients actually take their doctor's advice and get chemotherapy after surgery. Even more striking was the breakdown by age. While 66% of women 45 and younger go in for chemo, the numbers drop to 12% for women...
...reasons, one good and one not so good. The first probably stems from the definition of substantial benefit. While chemotherapy is typically thought of as life-prolonging (rather than lifesaving), its benefits definitely fall off with age. According to the Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group, women 50 and younger were 27% less likely to die within 10 years of surgery if they were also treated with chemo. By contrast, women 60 to 69 had their 10-year mortality rate reduced by only 8% with post-surgical chemotherapy...
...other reason seems to be a misconception about the risks and side effects of chemo. These can include impaired thought processes and increased risk of infections, and many older women believe they won't tolerate all of this as well as younger women do. That's a view not shared by many doctors. "For an otherwise healthy older woman," says Du, "the toxicities of chemotherapy should be no different than for a younger woman...
...headline.) Says Michele Elliott, director of the child- protection charity Kidscape: "It's pandering to dirty old men's images of young girls in school uniforms being sexual. It's very irresponsible." It's not dirty old men that buy their CDs though; it's usually other, often younger, girls. Lisa Smosarski, editor of teen-pop magazine Smash Hits, says, "Teenagers will understand the video was made to shock and create playground talk: 'Oh my God. Have you seen that video where those girls snog? You've got to see it!' Record companies need to create that kind of buzz...