April Menge was between a double mastectomy and Chemotherapy when she heard new recommendations that women shouldn’t have mammograms before age 50. more>>
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Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009 | 2 a.m. - How's this for timing? Here was Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ready to unveil his long-awaited Senate Healt... more>>
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When a government advisory panel put out new recommendations last week that said women under age 50 need not be screened for Breast Cancer, the calls began flowing to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's office. Within days, t... more>>
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I am among the thousands of women every year who discover between the ages of 40 and 49 that we have Breast Cancer . We find out after we undergo mammograms. We find out after we examine ourselves for lumps that may ... more>>
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Sharon Randolph Breast Cancer Foundation discusses fundraiser and current events OAKLAND, CA November 22, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ground Level Perspective creator... more>>
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News about changing guidelines for cervical and Breast Cancer screening have some women cheering, a lot of women fuming, and most women feeling confused. Or betrayed, or mistreated or worse. There is one universal me... more>>
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The government-funded — but independent — U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, made up of 16 physicians and Public-health experts, did what it was supposed to, and indeed should be done routinely under an... more>>
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Here are letters to the editor from Daily News editions of Nov. 22, 2009: Letter of the Day: 50 is too late Editor, Daily News: It is of great concern to me that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is suddenly telling women to wait until they ar... more>>
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Doing the right thing and taking the time to protect yourself against Breast Cancer has moral weight that policy makers ignore at their peril. more>>
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Days after a government task force radically changed its guidelines for using mammograms to screen for Breast Cancer, another critical preventive test — Pap smears – is under the microscope, heightening c... more>>
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First mammograms. Now more>>
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(NECN/ABC news) - For the second time this week, new guidelines urge women to get less screening for Cancer. "We're more concerned that people are getting over-treated than we are about missing ... more>>
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A leading medical group added new fuel to a budding Health Care controversy on Friday by recommending that women delay their first Cervical-cancer screening until age 21 instead of sta... more>>
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American women should get Pap smears to detect Cervical Cancer beginning at age 21, instead of three years after their first sexual experience , according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ... more>>
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WASHINGTON -- First mammograms. Now -- in an apparent coincidence -- Pap smears. New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch ... more>>
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Days after a government advisory panel rolled back its recommendations on mammography screening for Breast Cancer, another influential group issued revised guidelines on the use of Pap smears to detect ... more>>
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Special Report host Bret Baier falsely claimed that recently released Cervical Cancer screening guidelines were promulgated by a "federal panel," adding that those guidelines "open the ... more>>
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Friday's front-page “news analysis” by New York Times Health Care reporter Kevin Sack, “ Culture Clash in Medicine ,” dealt with two recent recommendations from quasi-government panels on limiting testing for [... more>>
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