Thursday, October 3, 2002

Vol 8, Issue 19

Science Articles

• Big spending on breast self-exams doesn't work, say Shanghai data
  Twelve-year study involving 266,000 mainland Chinese women shows no decline in breast-cancer deaths, points to high cost of benign biopsies
  
  
• A blood test for breast cancer
  Fred Hutchinson to lead nine other centers in Defense initiative totaling $7 million
  
  
• Why does prostate cancer become deadly?
  NCI grants totaling $23 million go to Northwest centers to seek answers; Fred Hutchinson to lead consortium of 50 Seattle, Vancouver scientists
  
  
• 'Sky's the limit' for trio of Steinberg nursing-scholarship winners
  
  
• Research Notes
  

General Articles

• 'It's always something' at Gilda's Club Seattle
  Recently opened sanctuary works closely with center, Alliance patients, staff
  
  
• No delays in vaccine this year; flu-shot clinics start this month
  

Briefs

• See physicians on KOMO-TV as preview to 'The Body Female'
  
  
• Human-subjects training set Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Pelton
  
  
• It's now Mundie Courtyard
  
  
• RescueFLYR can salvage tickets
  
  
• Entries due Oct. 7, Nov. 6 for 'diversity' visas
  
  
• Caring for an elderly parent or someone with a chronic condition?
  
  
• Transpo fair set today at Met East
  

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