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Health knowledge made personal
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Health knowledge made personal
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Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fri Nov 20 13:24:25 PST 2009
Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
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Cancer screening: What could it hurt? A lot, actually (Los Angeles Times)
Sat Nov 21 00:13:17 PST 2009
Routine cancer testing saves lives, but it also leads to biopsies, surgeries, radiation, even deaths that otherwise would not have occurred. But experts' reevaluations are met with public angst. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Cancer screening (Los Angeles Times)
Fri Nov 20 20:05:37 PST 2009
Here's what can happen when an asymptomatic person takes a screening test. Cancer screening
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New cervical cancer screening guidelines released (CNN)
Fri Nov 20 07:59:11 PST 2009
The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer.
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US backs new start date for cervical cancer tests (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Fri Nov 20 07:40:07 PST 2009
Women should not get their first cervical cancer screening before age 21, the leading US group of women's health care professionals said Friday, also recommending less frequent subsequent tests.
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New cervical cancer screening guidelines: report (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Fri Nov 20 07:28:32 PST 2009
Days after controversy erupted over new breast cancer screening guidelines, a US health group has said women should wait longer to get their first cervical cancer test.
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Breast cancer activists are walking the walk (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Sat Nov 21 01:52:01 PST 2009
Talk about hot pink. A strong undercurrent of anger ran beneath the sea of symbolic pink gear gracing thousands of people yesterday, on Day One of San Diego’s annual three-day walk to raise money and hope for breast cancer research.
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Guidelines Push Back Age for Cervical Cancer Tests (New York Times)
Fri Nov 20 04:36:03 PST 2009
New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and go for screening less often than had been previously recommended.
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Guidelines against self-exams for breast cancer ignite firestorm (Baltimore Sun)
Sat Nov 21 00:25:56 PST 2009
Mary Ivey didn't have a family history of breast cancer or a genetic mutation putting her at high risk for the disease. At 37, she was too young for an annual mammogram. But one day in March, she did a routine self-exam, as her doctor had instructed her, just in case.
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Slideshow: 4-year-old recovering from cancer (San Jose Mercury News)
Sat Nov 21 00:34:31 PST 2009
Four-year-old Mark Blinder had a rare form of cancer that had spread throughout his upper arm when he was 3. To treat the cancer, his parents chose an alternative approach that meant doctors at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital replaced his entire bone with a prosthesis that can be extended to...
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