When cancer runs in the family
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CNN's Paula Zahn speaks with Therese Bevers, Medical Director of the Cancer Prevention Center in Houston on the effects and dangers of having a family history of breast cancer. A woman having a chance of breast cancer depends on various factors including blood relatives with the disease, age of menstruation, age of pregnancy, and others.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 2004
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Is this drug a cure or a killer?
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The abortion pill, which caused death, is called for a ban, but yet many women are taking it saying it is saving their lives. Experts suggested that the mifepristone, a drug, has the potential to treat cancer, fibroid, endometriosis, depression and even brain tumors but it has caused death of one of the patients.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 2004
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Why do women get cancer?
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Breast cancer in women below 35 tends to be more aggressive, more advanced, and spreads faster than that of an elder woman. With the records of 4,300 women, under 35 developing breast cancers every year researchers are finding advanced ways of identifying the disease at its earliest age through blood tests.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 2004
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