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Panel Blasts Mammogram Guidelines
Dec. 2, 2009 (Chicago) -- A panel of breast cancer screening experts today blasted new government guidelines that recommend against routine annual mammograms. "The net effect of the new guidelines is that screening would begin too late and its effects would be too little. We would save money, but lo
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Study: Mammograms May Raise Breast Cancer Risk
Dec. 2, 2009 (Chicago) -- Low-dose radiation from mammograms or chest X-rays may place some young high-risk women at increased risk of developing breast cancer, a new study suggests. Women, especially those under 30, who are already at high risk of breast cancer because they carry a breast cancer ge
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Test May Reduce Unnecessary Breast Biopsies
Dec. 2, 2009 (Chicago) -- A new test that looks at the stiffness of tissue may help distinguish between cancerous and benign breast lesions, potentially cutting down on unnecessary biopsies, researchers say. Used in conjunction with breast ultrasound, the new imaging test, known as elastography, cor
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Breast Ultrasounds Spot More Cancers
Dec. 2, 2009 (Chicago) -- Adding ultrasound to annual mammograms improves the detection of early-stage breast cancer in women who are at high risk for the disease, researchers say. Ultrasound plus mammography, performed annually for three years, spotted about 30% more cancers than mammography alone,
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Pregnancy Protein May Slow Breast Cancer
Nov. 24, 2009 -- New research could help explain how pregnancy protects against breast cancer, and the findings may one day lead to a novel way to treat the disease. Investigators from the University of Albany linked the pregnancy protein alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) to slowed growth of breast cancer in
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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 Mammogram Guidelines Change
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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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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