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• Things To Consider With Breast Cancer Treatments

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 460
  Have you ever wondered if what you know about breast cancer treatments is accurate? Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you know to the latest info on breast augmentation surgery. Breast cancer starts in the cells of the breast. The breast tissue covers an area larger than just the breast. Breast ...
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• Things To Consider With Breast Cancer Treatments

  
  I wanted Info — Authority: 444
  Have you ever wondered what exactly is up with breast cancer treatments? This informative report can give you an insight into everything you’ve ever wanted to know about breast augmentation surgery. Breast cancer is the most common cancer and most common cause of cancer deaths among females in Australia. This ...
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• Promoting healthy skepticism in the news: Helping journalists get it right

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 642
  An editorial published online November 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute discusses the exaggerated fears and hopes that often appear in news coverage of cancer research. The editorial provides guidance for both the media and journals to help alleviate the problem.
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• No more mammagrams for women age 40?

  
  Dancing With Cancer: Living With Mets, A New Normal — Authority: 124
  Its been all over the news, the recent recommendation that women between the ages of 40 and 50 no longer need to have a mammogram, and women over 50 can have one every other year instead of every year. Plus there is now a recommendation that women no longer need to perform monthly breast self-exams (BSE). Its too ...
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• Olivia Newton-John, Jaclyn Smith slam new breast cancer guidance

  
  Forgotten Journal — Authority: 135
  Hollywood celebrities who have survived breast cancer lashed out at new government guidelines that raise the age of an American woman’s first mammogram from 40 to 50. Olivia Newton-John was diagnosed 17 years ago at the age of 43. She said: “We are not data, we are human beings. You can’t judge it by data. I ...
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• Blood Test Could Boost Clarity of Breast MRI Results for Some

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 546
  FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Using a blood test to pinpoint the optimal timing of breast MRI scans in women with irregular menstrual cycles could reduce the need for repeat scans, U.S. researchers say. read more
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• A Guide To Breast Cancer Treatments

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 168
  Have you ever wondered if what you know about breast cancer treatments is accurate? Consider the following paragraphs and compare what you know to the latest info on breast augmentation surgery.
  11 hours ago

• Elisabeth Hasselbeck Says Waiting Until Your 50’s to Get Routine Mammograms is ‘Gendercide’

  
  Woman Tribune — Authority: 431
  The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recently come out advising women that they should not get regular mammograms in their 40’s, as women have been told that they should do for quite a number of years now, and that they should wait until their 50’s. They have also advised that self breast exams do not ...
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• The Routine Mammogram Debate: To screen or not to screen? (video)

  
  ForWomenOnline — Authority: 441
  A women under 50 recently advised against routine mammograms for women under 50 who are not high risk. To screen or not to screen? Watch now: Katie Couric comments: Dr. Jennifer Ashton reports: What’s Behind The New Recommendations For Mammograms: Dr. Manny speaks out: This is just ridiculous! How ...
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• PI3K Pathway: A Potential Ovarian Cancer Therapeutic Target?

  
  Libby's H*O*P*E* — Authority: 113
  …[T]here are several PI3K signaling pathway targeting drugs in clinical development for use against ovarian cancer and solid tumors, including GDC-0941, BEZ235, SF1126, XL-147, XL-765, BGT226, and PX-866.  The results of two recent medical studies suggest that the use of PI3K-targeted therapies may offer an ...
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• New Guidelines for Cervical Cancer Screening, Too

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  Well, it’s been an interesting week for women’s health issues: earlier this week Giulia noted that a panel is recommending fewer mammograms and starting later, and now, new guidelines are suggesting that women start getting screened for cervical cancer later in life, and that Pap smears are not needed every ...
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• Simple blood test could reduce repeat breast MRI scans in premenopausal women with irregular periods

  
  BreakThrough Digest Medical News — Authority: 436
  A simple blood test corresponding to the follicular phase (days 3-14) of a normal menstrual cycle can aid in optimal scheduling of breast MRI exams in premenopausal women with irregular cycles possibly reducing the number of repeat scans and non-diagnostic tests patients experience and providing clearer images on ...
  14 hours ago

• Buzz in Bucks: new breast cancer screening guidelines

  
  The Intelligencer Now — Authority: 503
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• Buzz in Bucks: new breast cancer screening guidelines

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 603
  
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• Screen Less

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 648
  Emily B , I agree with you that it’s really unfortunate that the conclusion that we don’t need to routinely do mammograms until 50, instead of aparking a national, rational discussion about the advisability of “screening and prevention,” has become the harbinger that we’re all going to live under British ...
  15 hours ago

• CyberKnife It Is

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 134
  I walked out of my appt. with Dr. Lee the Second--who will be known on this blog as CyberKnife Guy--about an hour ago, totally exhausted.  Which is not to say it wasnt a good appt. It was. And CyberKnife guy answered all my questions and more. But now I can hardly keep my head up, so I am eating a bowl of oatmeal ...
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• My Body, Their Negligence?

  
  justsnarky — Authority: 124
  I am becoming more alarmed by the day about all the new found "guidelines" over the REALLY important health care issues that involve women like cervical cancer screenings and mammograms. I have known women who have had breast cancer, cervical and ovarian cancers. All were diagnosed young, and if they had not been ...
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• Task Force Member Defends Mammography Guidelines

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 546
  THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Responding to the uproar over revised mammogram recommendations unveiled earlier this week, a member of the independent task force that crafted the recommendations defended them Thursday, saying they were based on the most current, accurate information available. Image:  ...
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• Wasserman Schultz: New Mammogram Guidelines ‘Causing Mass Confusion’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a breast-cancer survivor, has been busy on the news shows this week, attacking the new guideline that women seek routine mammograms later in life. Last night, she was at it again, telling MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that it’s “totally inappropriate” for a panel without ...
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• Researchers identify role of gene in tumor development, growth and progression

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 642
  RICHMOND, Va. (Nov. 20, 2009) -- Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine researchers have identified a gene that may play a pivotal role in two processes that are essential for tumor development, growth and progression to metastasis.
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