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Cancer stalks the women in Anna Fisher's family. Her grandmother died of "female cancer" -- probably ovarian -- in the 1940s. When Fisher was five, her mother developed breast cancer. After having a mastectomy, the mother survived for a decade, only to die from cancer originating in the other breast. Fisher also has a maternal aunt who had ovarian tumors, and five cousins contracted breast cancer. Malignancy is simply part of her pedigree...
...doctors found she had ovarian cancer. Thanks to aggressive surgery and intensive chemotherapy, Fisher, a 41-year-old dietitian living in Pittsburg, California, made a remarkable recovery and became tumor-free. But she knew her future was still menacing. Scientists had recognized for several years that ovarian and breast cancer sometimes ran together in families, as if linked in some way. Fisher's oncologist proposed a once unthinkable step: a "prophylactic" double mastectomy. Removing her breasts, the doctor said, could save her life...
...Blood tests that purport to detect immune-system reactions to silicone leaked from breast implants are unreliable, say critics. The tests do detect antibodies, but not necessarily ones related to silicone...
...calls the Dunes "the original home of tinhorns and scumbags"), but the mixed feelings go beyond the mob. Last year Davy-O Thompson got zoning-board approvals to establish his haircutting salon, A Little Off the Top, where the female stylists were dressed in frilly teddies or paste-on breast caps and panties. But the board of cosmetology denied him a license an hour before he was set to open, citing concerns over "safety" and "hygiene." (He was eventually allowed to operate.) A similar protest contributed to the demise recently of a car wash featuring women in thong bikinis...
...some specific relation to the artist as friends, lovers, daughters. But the nature of that relationship doesn't appear in the painting, and everyone is treated with the same relentless scrutiny of physical fact, so that a chin or an elbow acquires the same intensity, as painting, as a breast or a pubic mound. The results have much to do with modeling -- physical manipulation, as though the body were being reconstructed in the medium of paint, crowded with bumps and hollows, and bursting with life...