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• is there allot of damage to breast tissue after radiation for breast cancer?

  
  The Word Is Hope — Authority: 139
  Had a mammogram on breast that had breast cancer.They say they see a spot of 1 cm on bottom of same breast.I do self breast exams weekly and do not feel a lump. Was told it could be damage to tissue due to surgery and radiation. Has anyone had this problem? When doing radiation had [...]
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• More women than ever take up breast cancer screening

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Almost two million women were screened for breast cancer last year - more than ever before.
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• Mammogram Debate Rages On and Splits Along Party Lines

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 160
  eco-salon.com (click for full size) We all continue to be somewhat baffled over how often to get mammograms and whom to trust as the last word on this critical issue for women. Hey, we all want to grow up to be old women, right? Weeks after the release of the report on new recommendations for mammograms ...
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• Tom Coburn MD, OK Senator, Health Care Bill is Scary, Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2009, Harry Reid, Seniors will die sooner, Medicare cuts, Government coercion instead of patient cues, Empowers Medicare to deny treatment based on cost, Sections 3403

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 549
  From the Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2009, written by Tom Coburn, MD, a senator from OK. “The Health Bill Is Scary” “By TOM COBURN” “I recently suggested that seniors will die sooner if Congress actually implements the Medicare cuts in the health-care bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
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• Annual Mammography Screenings Cause Breast Cancer?

  
  Klinika Kinetics — Authority: 99
  A new study presented on December 1 at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) verified that annual mammography screenings may be responsible for causing breast cancer in women who are predisposed to the disease. Epidemiologist Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide from the University ...
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• Ill have a blue Christmas without you (making my doctors appointments for me)

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 137
  Holiday gift shopping is tough. I mean, if commercials have taught us anything, its that women reeeally care about getting presents (especially pricey ones) and if you get a woman a gift she doesnt like shell probably never speak to you again . What can I say? I guess were ridiculously materialistic and shallow. So ...
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• The Mammogram Post-Mortem

  
  Better Health — Authority: 511
  Steve Novella whimsically opined on a recent phone call that irrationality must convey a survival advantage for humans. I’m afraid he has a point. It’s much easier to scare people than to reassure them, and we have a difficult time with objectivity in the face of a good story. In fact, our brains seem to be hard ...
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• Shaky Economy Slams Door on Free Cancer Screening for Poor

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 154
  Filed under: Disease Prevention , Cancer Low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned way for free cancer screenings, or they are being placed on interminable waiting lists, as unemployment hovers at 10 percent and more people go without health insurance, according to the Associated Press . ...
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• Racism in America Doesn’t Stop With Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly & Their Followers – It’s in Our Health Care Debate Too

  
  PoliticalArticles.NET - Blog — Authority: 137
  There is a prevalent misconception that racism is a self-contained problem. The myth goes like this: unless a hooded clansman is burning a cross on an African American family’s lawn, the United... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Breast Cancer Screening Advice that Doesnt Make Sense

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  A few years ago, my family lost a friend who died from breast cancer at far too young an age. I also know someone who had breast cancer at a young age, but who has thrived with appropriate treatment. Why does one person die and another live? Whenever I think of these two friends, I wonder if the first woman could ...
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• Potpourri

  
  dana blogs chess — Authority: 114
  It’s been a few days since my last blog post, so I sat down today and decided to write an update. But what should I write about? I haven’t played a game in two weeks. I haven’t studied any chess games in the past week, because I was too busy writing an article for New Scientist . Over the weekend, my usual ...
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• MRI plus mammography detects breast cancer at early stage

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 133
  AACR.org - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coupled with mammography detects almost all breast cancers at an early stage, thereby reducing the incidence of advanced stage breast cancer in high-risk women.“Earlier stage breast cancers are more likely to be curable,” said lead researcher Ellen Warner, M.D., M.Sc., ...
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• Senator Barbara Mikulski wants men to pay for women’s mammograms

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 431
  She doesn’t say it explicitly, but when Barbara Mikulski explains that her health care bill amendment would  “ guarantee women access to preventive health care screenings and care at no cost … [by requiring] all health plans to cover comprehensive women’s preventive care … with no copayments” it ...
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• The Dangers Of Getting A Pre-Menopausal Mammogram

  
  HelloBeautiful — Authority: 523
  Women have been and remain assured that radiation exposure from pre-menopausal mammography is trivial, about 1/1000th of a rad (radiation absorbed dose). However, the practice of taking two mammograms for each breast results in 500 times greater radiation exposure of half a rad, focused on each breast, rather than on ...
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• Arizona Breastnet Uses New Technology to Screen for Breast Cancer

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 528
  FDA Approved New Technology Used as Breast Cancer Screening Tool at Arizona BreastnetScottsdale, Ariz. – The FDA has approved new technology that now allows radiologists to detect breast... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you http://www.evliving.com/
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• All you ever wanted to know, but were too grossed out to ask, about an abnormal mammogram

  
  Out In Left Field — Authority: 127
  Worry, like guilt, is a wasted emotion. Why pay interest on a debt that will never come due?So this is me. Trying not to worry.Every woman is different and so are our breasts. Yet I’m going to offer here the latest chapter in the story of my breasts, so that others may learn a thing [...]
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• Mammogram Debates Leave Women Confused

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 137
  The United States Preventive Services Task Force said that it is more advisable for mammograms to be performed at a later age and to be done less frequently. The American Cancer Society thinks we should stick to the present practice of having it routinely done once a woman reaches the age of 40, and that it should be ...
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• Carly Fiorina Exploits Recent Bout With Cancer To Fearmonger About Mammogram Recommendations

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 758
  California Senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina is exploiting her recent bout with breast cancer to lie about the role of the U.S. Preventive Task Force and fearmonger about the consequences of health care reform. “This Task Force was explicitly asked to focus on costs, not just prevention. As it turned out, costs ...
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• Obama Says He Concentrating on Jobs

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 177
  President Barack Obama says hes concentrating on jobs even as he works on plans to strengthen the whole economy. In his weekly radio and Internet address. (Dec. 5)
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• GOP Response: Doctors, Not Cost in Health Care Debate

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 177
  Senate candidate Carly Fiorina says a concern in the health care debate is that medical decisions arent made by panels like the one that recently weakened recommendations on mammograms. Fiorina uses the weekly Republican address to say that the mammogram panel focused on cost. (Dec. 5)
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