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Cell Phone Risk Facts and Other Recommended Reading If Your Phone Is Giving You Cancer, Press 1 Mammogram Mania Their Busin by The Verigin Dental Health Team Doctor of Dentistry

Posted Tue 13 Oct 2009 10:04pm If Your Phone Is Giving You Cancer, Press 1 Maybe it’s part of the human condition – how we create and embrace new technologies without considering their potential ramifications. Then the law of unintended consequences comes into play. Some consequences, of course, are beneficial, while others may be harmful. Many modern drugs could serve ... Read on »

Can Breast Cancer Be Found Early? by Dr. C Medical Doctor

Posted Sun 04 Oct 2009 7:00pm

2 Comments Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations from the American Cancer Society Screening refers to tests and exams used to find a disease, such as cancer, in people who do not have any symptoms. The goal of screening exams, such as mammograms, is to find cancers before they start to cause symptoms. Breast cancers that are found because the ... Read on »

For Your Protection – What to Look For if Having a Mammogram by Sheri Goddard Posted Mon 07 Feb 2011 12:03pm 15 Things You Can do if You Are Having a Mammogram: I recently did a post with 4 parts to the article about the negative side of having mammograms. The information was written five years ago and when I researched this month, it is still a controversial subject, depending on whose opinion you want to believe. Here are some common sense thing ... Read on »

Mammograms by Cancer.gov Posted Thu 13 Aug 2009 9:00pm Mammograms Key Points A mammogram is an x-ray of the breast . Screening mammograms are used to check for breast cancer in women who have no signs or symptoms of the disease. Diagnostic mammograms are used to check for breast cancer after a lump or other sign or symptom of the disease h ... Read on »

Mammograms Cause Breast Cancer by Sheri Goddard Posted Tue 01 Feb 2011 6:38pm This is the final part of the article from http://www.naturalnews.com Below is a good resource of information written by a variety of doctors. Regular mammography of younger women increases their cancer risks. Analysis of controlled trials over the last decade has shown consistent increases in breast cancer mortality within a few yea ... Read on »

Shame on you, Dr Mukherjee! by The Savvy Sister Registered Nurse

Posted Mon 14 Nov 2011 12:23pm Shame on the New York Times best selling author, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee for his comments in his book on the value of mammography screening in combating breast cancer deaths. Dr Mukherjee wrote a recent best selling book entitled “The Emperor of All Maladies”. A biography of cancer that traces the fight to find the cure for cancer throug ... Read on »

Genetic Study Provides Clues to Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma by Cancer.gov Posted Tue 09 Aug 2011 10:13pm Mobile Phone Use Does Not Raise Cancer Risk in Children and Adolescents The first-ever study of mobile phone use by children and adolescents carried out in four European countries found no increased risk of brain cancer, according to a report published online July 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Insti ... Read on »

Potential Benefits of Digital Mammography by Aaron Tabor Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 25 Jan 2010 12:00am For years mammograms have been taken using the standard screen-film mammography where an X-ray image of the breast is printed on X-ray film. Over the last few years, developments in a new type of mammography, called full-field digital mammography, has shown that digital mammography might be a substantial improvement over standard mammography in ... Read on »

Who Needs Radiologists Anyway! by Davalos & McCormack. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Thu 03 Sep 2009 9:26am Just when I thought I really didn’t want to hear anything else about health care reform, something came along that really caught my attention and got me excited all over again. And it came in a venue and from a source that I least expected it! The past few months have been distressingly, depressingly bleak when it came to hearing thoughtful, c ... Read on »

Who Needs Radiologists Anyway! by Shirley Davalos & Kevin McCormack Patient Expert

Posted Thu 03 Sep 2009 10:36am Just when I thought I really didn’t want to hear anything else about health care reform, something came along that really caught my attention and got me excited all over again. And it came in a venue and from a source that I least expected it! The past few months have been distressingly, depressingly bleak when it came to hearing thoughtful, c ... Read on »