Breast Cancer Stigma a Killer in Developing World
Stigma and ignorance about breast cancer are responsible for the unnecessary deaths of many women in developing countries, a Pakistani physician said on Monday.
( Reuters, 10/21/2002 12:32 PM PDT)

Many Women Don't Know Pill Can Put Periods on Hold
Many women would like to skip their monthly period, but few are aware they have the option of doing so, a researcher from Hawaii reported here Saturday at the American Academy of Family Physicians' annual meeting.
( BY KATHLEEN DOHENY, Reuters, 10/21/2002 12:24 PM PDT)

Clues to how endometriosis affects fertility
Doctors have long known that women with endometriosis, a condition in which tissue from the uterine lining grows elsewhere in the pelvis, frequently have difficulty conceiving. Whether one condition causes the other, however, has remained unclear.
( BY ALISON MCCOOK, Reuters, 10/18/2002 11:48 AM PDT)

Breast cancer survivor still in race
Amy Shaw isn't the type of fighter who stays on the ropes for very long. The San Francisco woman came back swinging hard after learning she had breast cancer, and on Sunday she will join thousands of others to run and walk their way across the finish line in an effort to eradicate the disease.
( By Rowena Coetsee, STAFF WRITER, 10/18/2002 06:46 AM PDT)

Mastectomy, lump removal seen equal
For most of the 20th century, mastectomy, or removal of the breast, was the surgery of choice for doctors treating women with breast cancer.
( JEFF DONN, Associated Press Writer, 10/17/2002 06:25 AM PDT)

Study: Any drinking hurts pregnancy
Children born to mothers who drink even small amounts of alcohol early in pregnancy are shorter and weigh less at age 14 than children born to mothers who abstain, a study says.
( DAN NEPHIN, Associated Press Writer, 10/17/2002 06:27 AM PDT)

Panel issues hormone therapy caution
Estrogen and progestin supplements shouldn't be used by women hoping to prevent bone loss or other chronic ailments, the government says.
( 10/16/2002 06:56 AM PDT)

Woman gives birth to granddaughters
When Trish Roberts was 14, she learned she was born without a uterus, leaving her unable to bear children.
( Associated Press, 10/16/2002 08:02 AM PDT)

No link between deodorant, cancer
A new study, prompted by an urban myth spread on the Internet, shows there is no evidence that antiperspirants or deodorants can cause breast cancer.
( PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer, 10/16/2002 07:23 AM PDT)