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ABC NEWS STORY5. AVALANCHE OF QUESTIONS: ANSWERS TONIGHT
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) 에스트로겐과 프로제스틴을 같이 쓰는 호르몬 대체요법이 유방암 위험성을 높일 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 사망 위험성도 높이게 된다는 소식이 나간 후 우리 나라 여성분들이 좌불안석입니다.
As we know, a nation of women has been sitting on the edge of their seats following the news that hormone replacement therapy, and we're talking about the combination of estrogen and progestin, not only increases the risk of breast cancer, but the risk that they will die from it.
그 뉴스 이후 온라인으로 그리고 의사들에게도 문의가 쇄도하고 있습니다.
It has triggered an avalanche of questions online and, of course, doctors offices, as well.
그래서 우리 ABC뉴스에서 가장 궁금해 하는 부분들을 오늘 밤 전문가에게 물어보고자 하는데, ABC 뉴스 의학 전문 기고가인 마리 사바드 박사가 이 자리에 함께 해주셨는데, 북미폐경협회장께서도 이 자리에 같이 했습니다.
And we put some of your most urgent questions tonight to experts, our medical contributor Dr Marie Savard is here, and also the president of the North American Menopause Society.
스티븐 골드스타인 박사님, 자리를 해주셔서 고맙습니다.
Dr Steven Goldstein, thank you so much for coming in.
요즘 오는 전화들이, 사람들이 어떻게 해야 하는지 심각하게 고민하는 그런 내용들인가요?
The calls you're getting, are people a bit panicked about what to do?
STORY5. AVALANCHE OF QUESTIONS: ANSWERS TONIGHT
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) As we know, a nation of women has been sitting on the edge of their seats following the news that hormone replacement therapy, and we're talking about the combination of estrogen and progestin, not only increases the risk of breast cancer, but the risk that they will die from it. It has triggered an avalanche of questions online and, of course, doctors offices, as well. And we put some of your most urgent questions tonight to experts, our medical contributor Dr Marie Savard is here, and also the president of the North American Menopause Society. Dr Steven Goldstein, thank you so much for coming in. The calls you're getting, are people a bit panicked about what to do?
DOCTOR STEVEN GOLDSTEIN (PRESIDENT OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MENOPAUSE SOCIETY): Well they are panicked because they see the headline and think that the hormone therapy that they're on is similar what is being reported all over the media last night and this morning.
DIANE SAWYER: (OC) 5 million women on hormone replacement therapy right now. Is the first thing they should say to themselves, if I can get off it, get off it?
DOCTOR STEVEN GOLDSTEIN: You start people on a low dose. You titrate the dose up until they are relieved of their symptoms. And then at one year or 18 months, I try to lower that dose and see if the symptoms recur.
DIANE SAWYER: (OC) Is there any certainty thought that one year is safe, two years, safe?
DOCTOR STEVEN GOLDSTEIN: We're talking risk versus benefit. If you are waking up three and four times a night and you are unable to function in your daily activities, you need relief.
DIANE SAWYER: (OC) If somebody sitting at home says look, I'm not going to do this. I'm just gonna try everything else possible, and don't give me soy milkshakes, okay, because they won't work, what will work?
DOCTOR MARIE SAVARD (ABC NEWS): (OC) Diane, you hit it. There are a lot of women who are afraid of estrogen, so, even if they have disabling symptoms, they are afraid. Alternative therapies do work for some women. Things have been tried.
(VO) Non-hormonal therapies such as the antidepressant, Effexor. There's another type of medication that blocks nerves called Neurontin that can help. And then finally, acupuncture, believe it or not, has helped some patients.
DIANE SAWYER: (OC) Are there distinctions among the kinds of estrogen? And what should we know? We just want to be informed.
DOCTOR MARIE SAVARD: (OC) Diane, there are. For example, for estrogen, which is the only thing that really relieves disabling hot flashes.
(OC) You can you take it in a topical route, in sort of a patch, a cream or even a gel that kind of gets absorbed directly through the skin and may be safer.
DIANE SAWYER: (OC) I'm going to ask you both, if you will, to let us check in online with you.
DOCTOR STEVEN GOLDSTEIN: Love to.
DIANE SAWYER: (OC) Thank you both.
DOCTOR STEVEN GOLDSTEIN: Thank you.
STORY6. THE MISSING CODE: THE CARD
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) We know that the people in the White House are people, like us, misplacing things. But the nuclear code? And, was the person who did it in the oval office? John Donvan has a report.
JOHN DONVAN (ABC NEWS): (VO) Things a president can lose - some key votes in Congress. His standing in the polls. A game of golf. Things that a president can never lose, never, ever? The card with the nuclear codes on it. The one that lets him get into that black briefcase that an aide's always brings along, inside which are instructions for launching a nuclear attack. Like the briefcase, which is called the football, that card, which is called the biscuit, is supposed to be with the president at all times, giving him numbers to read out loud that identify him to everyone in the system as the commander-in-chief. That's why you don't lose the biscuit.
(OC) Think of it like an ATM pin number to get your money. Except that when Bill Clinton was president, someone lost the biscuit. This is according to the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Hugh Shelton, who has just come out with a memoir, and it's right there on page 392.
(VO) "At one point during the Clinton administration, the codes were actually missing. That's a big deal," Shelton writes, "a gargantuan deal." Especially, he says, because the codes were unaccounted for for months. Actually, this Clinton critic told a quite similar story in his own book, seven years ago. Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Patterson was one of those men who carried the football for Clinton. He says Clinton is the someone who lost the biscuit.
LT COL ROBERT PATTERSON (RET) (AUTHOR OF "DERELICTION OF DUTY"): He thought he had misplaced them upstairs. We called upstairs, we started a White House, kind of a, you know, a pretty thorough search around the White House for the codes and he finally confessed hours later that he had, in fact, misplaced them. And he couldn't recall when he had last seen them.
JOHN DONVAN: (VO) Who is to say the president couldn't have just picked up the phone to order an attack? Today, his office is not commenting. Same as no one's confirming or denying another old tale that Jimmy Carter once left his biscuit in a suit that got sent to the cleaners. John Donvan, ABC News, Washington.
DIANE SAWYER: (OC) Can someone look out for the biscuit and the football? Hope you have a great night and that we see you right back here for "World News" tomorrow night. We'll be here. See you then.
STORY6. THE MISSING CODE: THE CARD
DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS): (OC) 백악관 사람들도 우리와 똑 같은 사람들이며 무언가를 잃어버린다는 사실은 잘 알고 있습니다.
We know that the people in the White House are people, like us, misplacing things.
그런데 핵 코드가 들어있는 카드를 잃어버린다? 그것도 대통령이? 존 돈번이 보도합니다.
But the nuclear code? And, was the person who did it in the oval office? John Donvan has a report.
JOHN DONVAN (ABC NEWS): (VO) 대통령이 잃을 수 있는 것들. 의석. 지지율. 골프. 대통령이 절대로 잃으면 안되는 것들이라면?
Things a president can lose - some key votes in Congress. His standing in the polls. A game of golf. Things that a president can never lose, never, ever?
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