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New Mammography Guidelines Jolt Medical Field
Nov. 20, 2009 -- The new guidelines on breast cancer screening have instantly ignited an emotionally charged firestorm among doctors across the country. “Physicians are quite divided about this," says Joseph Stubbs, MD, an Albany, Ga., internist and president of the American College of Physicians. D
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Panel: Screening Mammograms Should Start at 50
Nov. 16, 2009 – A government appointed expert panel is calling for huge changes in breast cancer screening in the United States, but a leading cancer group is highly critical of the move. In newly revised guidelines, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends against routine mam
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New Mammogram Screening Guidelines FAQ
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is recommending sweeping changes in its breast cancer screening guidelines. The USPSTF, which is a group of independent health experts convened by the Department of Health and Human Services, reviewed and commissioned research to develop computer-simu
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Chronic Pain After Breast Cancer Surgery
Nov. 10, 2009 -- Barbara Schneider had breast cancer surgery seven years ago, but she still has frequent nerve pain in the area under her arm where lymph nodes were removed. Now 57, Schneider says she has tried pain medication, exercise, and other nondrug treatments to get relief, but nothing has be
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Quick Radiation Works for Breast Cancer
Nov. 4, 2009 (Chicago) -- A shorter, cheaper and more convenient three-week course of radiation appears to work just as well as the traditional six-week schedule for some women with early-stage breast cancer, a new study suggests. "We cut the duration of radiation treatment in half," says study rese
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Too Many Mastectomies? Maybe Not
Oct. 13, 2009 -- Are surgeons too quick to perform mastectomy instead of breast-conserving surgery? No, a new study suggests. When it's medically appropriate, breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy) cures as many cancers as removal of the entire breast (mastectomy). Yet there's a sense that surgeons
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Gene Predicts Tamoxifen Success in Breast Cancer
Oct. 8, 2009 -- A single gene variant predicts breast cancer survival after tamoxifen treatment, a new study finds. In the 46% of women with the "good" gene, tamoxifen works as well as newer drugs. For women with the gene variant linked to poor response to tamoxifen treatment, other treatment strate
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Breast Cancer Deaths Drop Again
Sept. 30, 2009 -- Breast cancer death rates dropped 2%, continuing a decade-long decline, the American Cancer Society reports. That means about 15,000 deaths were avoided in 2009 alone, the ACS estimates. Breast cancer deaths declined among African-American women. But African-Americans are still 40%
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Man's Guide to Breast Cancer
John W. Anderson has stood by his mother, wife, sister, and his mom’s closest friend as they battled breast cancer. His new book, Stand by Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men, published in time for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, details these experience, and all that he learned by being on t
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More Women Choose to Remove Noncancerous Breasts
Sept. 28, 2009 -- In the first study to define how many American women are undergoing prophylactic mastectomy, researchers have found that the number of women choosing to have the protective procedure is on the rise. Prophylactic mastectomy is the removal of a healthy breast in order to reduce risk
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October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and a new study reveals why a high number of women with the disease still prefer to have the entire breast surgically removed instead of just the tumor. It's not always because doctors recommend it.
