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2 hrs ago | ClipSyndicate

Women Disagree with New Breast Exam News

Last week, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published new guidelines that recommended against routine mammography screening for women in their 40s and less-frequent screening for older women at average risk of developing breast cancer.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Video

6 hrs ago | Medical News

Study on response to breast cancer radiotherapy

Scientists are closer to discovering why some people respond to breast cancer radiotherapy better than others, according to Breast Cancer Campaign.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

10 hrs ago | WVNS-TV Ghent

W.Va. Doctors, Cancer Survivors Dislike New Mammogram Guidelines

One week ago, a government task force released a report saying women in their 40s should forgo screening mammograms, waiting until age 50.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Health, West Virginia, West Virginia Government

Thu Nov 26, 2009

This is Dorset

Fears for Dorset County Hospital breast cancer unit

FEARS that the breast cancer unit will be moved from Dorset County Hospital have sparked protest plans.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Health, Medicine, Dorset County, England, United Kingdom

Oklahoma City Business

Mercy announces it will be test site for new breast-cancer treatment

Mercy Womena s Center and Breast MRI of Oklahoma announced Nov. 24 its selection as a beta test site for Edge breast magnetic resonance imaging, a proposed upgrade for existing Rodeo breast-dedicated MRI.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Medicine, Health, North Andover, MA, Andover, MA

CBC News

Sleep Disorders Plague Cancer Patients

Insomnia and sleep disorders affect more than three-quarters of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, a rate nearly three times higher than that of the general population, a new study finds.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Insomnia, Health, Oncology, Science / Technology

Medical News Today

Senate HELP Committee To Examine New Mammogram Recommendations

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 26 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing to examine the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's recently revised breast cancer screening guidelines , including the recommendation that women begin ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Women's Health, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lisa Murkowski

The Herald

A backlash of mistrust

A backlash of mistrust By Ellen Goodman BOSTON - Is there such a thing as communications malpractice? If so, we might consider the case of Women vs.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Opinion

Palladium-Item

Outcry over panel's findings will aid search for cure

The recent medical recommendations from a federal panel regarding mammograms is probably being taken too seriously by some, not seriously enough by others, and probably just about right by those who see it as an extension of the anxieties generated by current health care reform debate.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Kevin, M.D.

The health reform politics of mammograms and breast cancer screening

The emotional debate over a federal panel's proposal to end routine mammograms for women in their 40s has reignited controversy over a contentious healthcare reform issue: comparative effectiveness research.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lisa Murkowski, Healthcare Law, Law

The Dallas Morning News

Komen for the Cure founder Nancy Brinker blasts proposed new mammography guidelines

Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, said today that a recent federal task force recommendation that most women should cut back on annual mammograms sends the wrong signals, and that opponents are "justifiably outraged." "We've urged people to get screened," she said.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Medicine, Health, Cancer, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

PharmaGossip

Pfizer - Prempro / Provera : approaching "squeal point"?

Two Pfizer Inc. units' hormone- replacement therapy drugs caused an Illinois woman's breast cancer, making them liable for at least $6.3 million in damages, a Philadelphia jury ruled today.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Prempro, Estrogen/Progestin (generic), Medication, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Health, Cancer, Menopause

Newswise

Protein from Pregnancy Hormone May Prevent Breast Cancer

Researchers have found that hormones produced during pregnancy induce a protein that directly inhibits the growth of breast cancer.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Albany Medical College

TurkishPress.com

US women to ignore new breast exam advice: poll

Three-quarters of US women disagree with a high-level panel's recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening and even more plan to ignore the guidelines, a poll showed Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Tue Nov 24, 2009

National Public Radio

Cancer Screening Guidelines Are Difficult To Accept

Rene Syler, author and former anchor of the CBS Early Show, underwent a double mastectomy in 2007.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

WIS-TV Columbia

Women should ignore new mammogram guideline, ex-NIH chief says

The fallout from last week's controversial recommendation that women delay the start of routine mammogram testing for breast cancer continues, with a former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health advising women to ignore the guidelines.

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Related Topix: Health

Palladium-Item

All health care is personal

WASHINGTON -- The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines on when women should have mammograms is proof of the blindingly obvious: Health care reform that actually controls costs -- rather than just pretending to do so -- would be virtually impossible to achieve.

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Related Topix: Cancer, Medicine, Health, Prostate Cancer

WUSA9

Poll: Women Reject New Mammogram Advice

A vast majority of American women plan to ignore controversial new recommendations about mammograms, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, Medicine, Health

CourierPostOnline

Understanding the new mammogram recommendation

Q: Which screenings are recommended? A. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends mammograms for women 50 to 74 every other year.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Bioscience Technology

Insomnia prevalent among cancer patients who receive chemotherapy

Three quarters of cancer patients and survivors treated with chemotherapy suffer insomnia or sleep disorders that often become chronic conditions, hindering patients' ability to fully recover, according to scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

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Related Topix: Insomnia, Medicine, Health, Oncology, Depression

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