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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that always progressed the same way, beginning with a single mutant cell that continued to divide and spread to the rest of the body. At the time, screening all women made sense, especially since annual mammograms had reduced deaths from breast cancer 3% each year since 1990. But as Dr. Russell Harris, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the task force, points out, breast cancer occurs less frequently in younger women, and not every cancer is the same. Some tumors are indolent and slow-growing; others are aggressively malignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mammogram Melee: How Much Screening Is Best? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...part of doctors and disease advocacy groups to promote preventive-health behaviors. Many feel the push may have done the public a disservice by instilling the belief that screenings are purely beneficial. "We have not rounded out that discussion with the American public about the harms," says Dr. Therese Bevers, a professor of clinical cancer prevention at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mammogram Melee: How Much Screening Is Best? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...certainly understand and respect the fact that different people may have different preferences. But I sincerely doubt that there are many European TIME readers interested enough to justify a story of four pages about a professional boxer from the Philippines who is not widely known to the general public. Dr. Peter Koeppe, BERLIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give 'Em Hell, Hillary | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...their lack of health care and their gun-toting distrust of democratic institutions. In an entirely nonjudgmental way I could not help thinking how at home, with perhaps a few cultural adjustments for the position of women, the Chutes and their neighbors might be among the Pashtun of Afghanistan. Dr. Stephen Hopkins, ECCLES, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give 'Em Hell, Hillary | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...local cave, but they are promptly interrupted by the appearance of the show’s namesake, played by Walter B. Klyce ’10. After the confused cave creature bites young Ruthie (Maya S. Sugarman), he is taken to the home of the dashing and devilish Dr. Thomas Parker (Adam M. Lathram), where his charming wife Meredith (Megan L. Amram ’10) and daughter Shelley (Samara R. Oster ’13) take charge of his care. What unfolds is a story familiar in its conception if not in its ultimate resolution. Slowly but surely...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Bat Boy" Sighting a Pleasantly Strange Event | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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