Tag: breast cancer

• Recycling the Old

  For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven… Really? It made sense when I was young, I suppose -when all of Time was ahead. When I needed to think there was some order to things. That past and future meant old and new. But as the years slip past, I…

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  July 30, 2015

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  BBC news, bisphosphonates, bone metastases, breast cancer, Ecclesiastes, glitazone, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lancet, new, old, Parkinson’s disease, Phoenix, recycling, Talmud, Wisdom, wisdom of elders

• The Body’s Clock

  Scientists –well, all of us- have been suspicious about the health risks of shift work for a long time now. Perhaps there is a reason buried somewhere in our genes that suggests night is for sleeping and daytime for working. Originally, no doubt, it was because it was difficult to see things in the dark…

  gozzter

  July 23, 2015

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  body clock, BRCA mutations, breast cancer, Chronic circadian rhythm disturbances, circadian rhythm, commercial pilots, Current Biology, darkness, entrainment, flight attendants, habits, jetlag, Kirsten Van Dycke, light, light/dark cycles, Macbeth, obesity, Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Shift work, sleep disturbance, type 2 diabetes, Zeitgeber

• Breast and Ovarian Cancer Screening

  I am sometimes troubled by the concept of risk. I mean how can we possibly decide whether or not a risk is acceptable? No matter the statistics, if the issue under consideration doesn’t happen, then the risk assumed was acceptable. So far, so good. But of course the converse is also true: no matter how low the risk,…

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  November 12, 2014

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  BRCA gene, BRCA1, BRCA2, breast cancer, cancer, cancer screening, Founder effects, guessing, hereditary breast cancer, lottery, male breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prediction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, risk, Risk of medicai, Statistics, triple negative breast cancer