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1 hr ago | Fort Wayne News Sentinel

Area doctors won't switch screenings for breast cancer

Dr. Raymond Facco says Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center diagnosed 25 women under 50 with breast cancer this year.

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Related Topix: Health, Breast Cancer, Women's Health

Fri Nov 20, 2009

WRUF-AM Gainesville

New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

Breast cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death amongst women in the United States and early detection is vital for treatment.

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Related Topix: Health, Breast Cancer

MediLexicon

Family Caregivers, Simple Touch Techniques Reduce Symptoms In Cancer Patients

Family caregivers can significantly reduce suffering in cancer patients at home through use of simple touch and massage techniques.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Life, Interracial,Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural, Health

MediLexicon

Multidisciplinary Meeting On Urological Cancers

Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is the result of a combined effort.

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Related Topix: Kidney Cancer, Health, Medicine, Urology, Radiology, Prostate Cancer, bladder cancer

Newswise

Patient Receives World's First Delivery of Intra-arterial Avastin...

Neurosurgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first intra-arterial cerebral infusion of Avastin directly into a patient's malignant brain tumor.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Brain Cancer, Neurological Surgery, Healthcare Law, Law

Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

Doctors defend mammograms, self-exams

A group of local doctors say they'll still recommend mammograms and self-exams for their patients, despite new guidelines released this week by a government task force.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer

Herald Star Online

Teramana cancer center doctors blas.....

Local oncologists are fuming over the release of recommendations that would lead to fewer mammographies for women over the age of 40 if the medical profession were to adopt them.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, US News

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Medical News Today

Radiation Breakthrough Gives Breast Cancer Patients Hope In Single Dose

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST A radiation breakthrough to treat breast cancer patients in one day, as opposed to the current average of six weeks, has arrived at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer, Italy, World News, Sarcoma

The Times

First phase of Oncology Centre gets green light

Comment about "First phase of Oncology Centre gets green light" Phone Name Comment 0 Thursday, 19th November 2009 - 11:40CET First phase of Oncology Centre gets green light The first phase of the construction of the Oncology Centre at Mater Dei Hospital was approved by the Mepa board this morning.

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Related Topix: Medicine

MediLexicon

CytRx To Initiate Phase 2 Clinical Trial With INNO-206 In Patients With Advanced Gastric Cancer

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology CytRx Corporation , a biopharmaceutical company, today announced plans to initiate an open-label, multinational Phase 2 clinical trial with its doxorubicin prodrug INNO-206 as a second-line treatment in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, CytRx, Healthcare Industry, Doxorubicin (generic), Adriamycin, Doxil, Health

News Courier

Griffith blasts panela s advice to delay, reduce frequency of mammograms

U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith, D-Alabama, condemned on Wednesday the panel recommending that women delay a first mammogram until age 50 and get checkup every two years rather than annually.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Parker Griffith, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Alabama, Medicine, Cancer

Physics Blog

Cancers' sweet tooth may be weakness

The pedal-to-the-metal signals driving the growth of several types of cancer cells lead to a common switch governing the use of glucose, researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have discovered.

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Related Topix: Emory University, Medicine

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Medical News Today

NCI Statement On Breast Cancer Screening

Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology Article Date: 17 Nov 2009 - 17:00 PST NCI appreciates the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's careful review and analysis of the evidence regarding breast cancer screening for women at average risk.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer

WJTV Jackson

Va Federal Jury Convicts Physician In Fraud Scheme

A federal jury has convicted a Virginia Beach physician on nearly 30 counts in a fraudulent-billing scheme that bilked government health programs out of $1.2 million.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicine

New York Times

Many Doctors to Stay Course on Breast Exams for Now

Despite new recommendations that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said Tuesday that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York Metro

Telegraph.co.uk

US anger about changes to breast cancer testing

Doctors are in uproar over a recommendation to raise the age of breast cancer screening, saying that more women will die from the disease, which claims 40,000 lives each year.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer

Physics Blog

Cancer patients and doctors report drug side effects differently

In clinical trials for cancer, it is standard for clinicians rather than patients to report adverse symptom side effects from treatments, such as nausea and fatigue.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Charitable Organizations, Lung Cancer

ClipSyndicate

Doctor Makes Ovarian Cancer Breakthrough

A Mid-South oncologist was instrumental in a clinical trial that will help women nationwide.

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Related Topix: Ovarian Cancer, Health, Medicine, Healthcare Law, Law, Video

Tue Nov 17, 2009

MyFoxOrlando

New breast screening guidelines

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammograms for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care "rationing" in the fight against the No.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Phil Gingrey, Republican, US House of Representatives, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Health, Breast Cancer, Mount Sinai, NY

Daily Mail

The breast cancer revolution that saves women from chemo

A diagnosis of breast cancer usually means having chemotherapy to stop the cancer coming back.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer, Travel, Austria Travel, Osteoporosis

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