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health

That’
s exactly how Brandon 
Klein feels. The 25-year-old West 
Bloomfield resident believes the 
trouble started as early as age 5. “I 
remember feeling anx-
ious and worried all of 
the time,” he said.
“In my teens, the 
problems became more 
debilitating. I suffered 
chronic tension head-
aches and had panic 
attacks when I drove, especially on 
the freeway.” 
 Klein said he was always anxious 
but couldn’
t pinpoint a reason why, 
and often clenched his teeth and 
tensed his shoulders. 
He sought help from a psycholo-
gist and often charted driving routes 
to avoid highways. Still, though, the 
problems lingered until he found 
his way to Vision Specialists. Today, 
wearing his aligning lenses, Klein is 
not only an avid reader, but he also 
reads with more confidence and 
notices his eyes no longer get tired 
from reading. And he doesn’
t feel 
any anxiety when he gets behind the 
wheel of his car. He even noticed his 
hearing improved. 
“My only regret is not associating 
my problems with my vision earlier,” 
said Klein, a meditation teacher who 

also works with The Well, a local 
Jewish outreach program. “It would 
have saved me so much grief.” 
BVD, however, is an equal oppor-
tunity condition in that it also affects 
children. 
Avi Dworkin, 10, of Oak Park start-
ed having trouble in school more than 
a year ago. Specifically, he couldn’
t 
read the board and 
struggled during math 
lessons to distinguish 
between numbers. His 
grandmother noted a 
clumsy gait when they 
would walk together. 
Children suffering 
from BVD also expe-
rience a range of symptoms that can 
include motion sickness, tilting their 
heads to one side, light sensitivity and 
skipping lines when reading. 
“We’
d been to his pediatrician, but 
she couldn’
t give us an answer. I’
d 
been a patient of Dr. Feinberg’
s and 
thought she might be able to help 
Avi,” said Cindy, Avi’
s grandmother. 
Cindy’
s suspicions were correct 
— Avi did have BVD and “almost 
immediately after he started wear-
ing his new lenses, he became like a 
new child, eager to get to school. His 
grades improved and his penmanship 
is better.” ■

Avi Dworkin

National Breast Cancer Study 
Seeks Volunteers

Beaumont Health researchers are 
seeking women with breast can-
cer for a national research study. 
Investigators hope to learn if weight 
loss decreases the likelihood of a 
recurrence of breast cancer. The 
research is known as the BWEL 
study, or Breast Cancer Weight Loss 
Study. 
“Previous studies have found that 
women who are overweight or obese 
when their breast cancer is diagnosed 
have a greater risk of their breast can-
cer recurring, as compared to women 
who were thinner when their cancer 
was found,” explained Dr. George 
Howard, principal investigator for 
Beaumont Health.
This study is conducted by the 
Alliance for Clinical Trials in 
Oncology, a national clinical research 
group supported by the National 
Cancer Institute. The Alliance is 
made up of cancer doctors, health 
professionals and laboratory 
researchers whose goal is to devel-
op better treatments for cancer, to 
prevent cancer, to reduce side effects 

from cancer and to improve the qual-
ity of life of cancer patients.
The nationwide study will enroll 
approximately 3,100 women into one 
of two groups. A computer will ran-
domly assign study volunteers into 
a group. Group 1 participants will 
receive a health education program 
designed to give women more infor-
mation about their breast cancer and 
their overall health. Group 2 partic-
ipants will get the health education 
program and a two-year weight loss 
program. The program is designed 
to help women lose about 10 percent 
of their starting weight by decreasing 
calories they eat and increasing their 
exercise.
The research will be conducted 
at Beaumont hospitals in Dearborn, 
Farmington Hills, Grosse Pointe, 
Royal Oak and Troy.
For details, contact Beaumont’
s 
Cancer Clinical Trials Office at (248) 
551-7695. For study details, visit 
ClinicalTrials.gov condition “breast 
cancer” and search term “BWEL.” ■

Brandon Klein

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