Breast Cancer 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.