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• Breast Cancer 101

  
  Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy — Authority: 426
  In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy explains the breast cancer risks for women. Cancer refers to any abnormal and uncontrolled cell growth. One in 8 women get breast cancer. While the main risk factor is if someone in your family has or had breast cancer there are a few others as well such as: if ...
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• Do the pink glove dance

  
  Mark Blevis — Authority: 121
  Even though this video promotes a new pink glove by  Medline , I can’t help but get a smile on my face seeing so many people have fun and knowing that this video is an effort to raise awareness about breast cancer. Also… word has it that when the video reaches 1 million views, Medline will be making a huge ...
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• Should Mammograms Wait Until 50?

  
  Gov Gab: Your U.S. Government Blog — Authority: 511
  In the past week, the news has been abuzz with the announcement from an independent panel that a woman should delay getting a mammogram until age 50. Generally, doctors and the American Cancer Society recommend annual mammograms beginning at age 40. The panel says that while it is great that women are being ...
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• Screening Can’t Hurt, Can it?

  
  Laika's MedLibLog — Authority: 554
  The next Grand Rounds is hosted by How To Cope With Pain and, not surprisingly, the main theme will therefore be pain. Now, I had a personal story in mind on the downside of testing, but I didn’t have a good title that fit the theme. Till, this Saturday when I a saw a perfect [...]
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• Help us name our breast cancer podcast/blog

  
  Mark Blevis — Authority: 121
  Andrea and I have been doing some audio recording that documents the process we’ve been going through since Andrea was diagnosed with breast cancer on October 6. The plan is to document our experiences and how we handle them as we work towards Andrea becoming a breast cancer survivor. The most difficult part has ...
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• Should I Have My Next Mammogram?

  
  Marilyn Sewell — Authority: 107
  I got a call from Kaiser Permanente several days ago informing me that I was due for my yearly mammogram.  That call came the day before I saw the headline in the NY Times telling me that having a test every other year is now the recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for a woman my age.  ...
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• Taking A Stand Against the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s “New Breast Cancer Guidelines”

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 126
  As a member of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advocacy Alliance Board and a breast cancer survivor, I welcome readers of Disruptive Women in Health Care to read the statement below that was released by Komen as a result of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force “new breast cancer guidelines.” In addition, ...
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• Eponysterical? You betcha.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Employees of Providence St. Vincent Medical Center presents the Pink Glove Dance for Breast Cancer Awareness. via Lots of beautiful personalities in this video.
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• No more mammograms for young women, panel recommends

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Home , Health On Monday, the American Cancer Society was seeing red courtesy of a new set of government guidelines for breast cancer screenings that sent shock waves through the organization -- and the entire country. Recently, the American Cancer Society backpedaled on screenings for some ...
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• New Mammography Age Stirs Controversy

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 156
  Filed under: Womens Health The recommendation yesterday that the age of mammograms or, breast cancer screenings be moved from age 50 to 40 and that breast self-exams are really not worth the squeeze that you give them, has rocked the world of medicine -- and conventional wisdom. The United States ...
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• Mammograms for Breast Cancer not always necessary

  
  THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DR CASTRO — Authority: 423
  Image via Wikipedia The Fed Task Force has recommended to all US medical doctors not to perform mammograms to women before age 50 nor older than 74. They also "recommend"  changing the screening interval from 1 year to 2 years!!! Oh, let me not forget to mention that the Fed Task Force also has published specific ...
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• New breast cancer screening guidelines confuse women as experts disagree

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 800
  Filed under: Healthcare If the experts cant agree on guidelines for breast cancer screening, then how are women supposed to decide? At the end of the day, the new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of independent experts, have left women quite confused. Several other expert sources, ...
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• Mammograms at 50 Instead of 40? New Guidelines Controversial

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 807
  Filed under: Health Care , Woman Up When should a woman get her first mammogram? The automatic answer for me and for most women I know has been as soon as she turns 40. But on Monday, the federal government released new guidelines pushing the recommended age from 40 to 50, citing a higher instance of ...
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• Thoughts on Breast Cancer Recommendation Reversal

  
  CNN.com - Most Popular — Authority: 836
  The US Dept of Health and Human Services Preventive Services Task Force just came out with new recommendations for screening for breast cancer.  They say women should start screening at 50 yrs old not 40 as previously recommended.  It also says women between 50 and 74 should have mammograms once every 2 yrs instead ...
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• A Gene Linked with Breast Cancer Has Been Discovered

  
  Geniusbeauty.com — Authority: 145
  A new study has just been published in Oncogene reporting the discovery by British scientists of a gene connected with the development and growth of a significant number of breast cancer cases. It is a gene located on chromosome 8 which is called NRG1 (neuregulin-1).(...) Read the rest of A Gene Linked with ...
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• Bring A “Superior Quality” Friend & You Both Get…

  
  Double D's Sourdough Pizza — Authority: 116
  We Believe That People With A Taste For Superior Quality Attract Superior Quality Friends! So, for the rest of the year when you bring a friend, you both get $5.00! Bring more friends & you each get $5.00! All we ask is that you & your “Superior Quality” friends ...
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• Bring A “Superior Quality” Friend & You Both Get…

  
  Double D's Sourdough Pizza — Authority: 116
  We Believe That People With A Taste For Superior Quality Attract Superior Quality Friends! For the rest of the year when you bring a friend, you both get $5.00! Bring more friends & you each get $5.00! All we ask is that you & your “Superior Quality” friends 1.  ...
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• Is There Something Dangerous Lurking In Your Purse?

  
  QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED — Authority: 124
  Could the cosmetics in your purse be harmful to your health? Image from Wikimedia Commons. / CC BY-NC 3.0 Each October, within Breast Cancer Awareness Month, my friends and I get into a flurry organizing and putting on Beats for Boobs . Beats for Boobs is an annual fundraiser started by my friend Juliana ...
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• Bikini Parade In South Africa

  
  Jialat dot Com — Authority: 136
  This is awesome! Hundreds of bikini clad women descend on Johannesburg in a bid to break a world record and raise breast cancer awareness. This article is posted in Jialat dot Com . Visit Jialat @ Facebook Contact Jialat: jialatdotcom@gmail.com These are interesting as well: World First England Replica ...
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• Woman Lies About Breast Cancer to Raise Money for Boob Job

  
  Lemondrop.com — Authority: 675
  Filed under: Dating & Love , News , Weird News When youre in love, youll do anything to make a relationship work. Does that include lying about having cancer? For Trista Joy Lathern, it sure did. The 24-year-old Texan lied about having breast cancer and then used the $10,000 raised at a ... Read more   ...
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