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...group of authors, including several Harvard faculty members, announced earlier this week that they erred in a study published this past July which concluded that the relationship between those who develop breast cancer and those who have a family history of the disease was weaker than previously believed...
...Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the researchers corrected their original conclusion that only 2.5 percent of women with breast cancer have family histories of the disease. The conclusion should have read six percent, according to Dr. Walter C. Willett, a co-author of the study and chair of the Department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health...
Bone-marrow transplants for advanced breast-cancer patients allow some women + whose cancers have spread into 10 or more lymph nodes to undergo more intensive radiation therapy. The 1,200 instances in which the technique has been tried so far suggest that it may add several years to a patient's life -- at a cost of more than $100,000 a year. However, refinements may soon drastically reduce that to a far more cost-effective $17,000. Letha Mills, director of the bone-marrow transplant program at New Hampshire's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, is worried about the chilling effect...
...breast cancer survivor. I'm concerned for the students and for my daughters," she said...
Harvard Real Estate Assistant Vice President Maura A. Scanlon McRae '81, who discovered she had breast cancer last year at the age of 32, said she raised a potential $1,100 for the effort through pledges from friends and co-workers...