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Newswise (Free subscription) | yesterday
The debate on how to select patients who will respond best to costly drug treatments for aggressive breast cancer now favors fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to measure the HER-2 receptor found in human breast tumors, according to a leading pathologist presenting at the Association for Molecular Pathology annual meeting.
The Note (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The new recommendations for breast cancer screening are entirely unrelated to President Obama’s push for health care reform. But, in a particularly unfortunate stroke of timing for Democrats, the two issues have become confused and conflated in the minds of many observers.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
New recommendations for breast cancer screening are becoming mixed up with Obama's health care plan.
Good Evening World (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
According to recent report of American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 70 percents breast cancer patients don’t know about this disease as well as are not well aware of the options that can beat the disease
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Breast cancer debate must strike a balance Commentary By Katherine Chretien My parents are complete opposites. My father is deeply rational, a chemist by trade and a man of science. My mother is more emotional, artistic and swayed by the...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Republicans have found a new scapegoat in the debate over health care reform. First it was the death panels. Now it is the fear...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
New recommendations for breast cancer screening are becoming mixed up with Obama's health care plan. Breast cancer - Health care - Cancer - Health - Breast
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
ABC’s Robin Roberts on Thursday pressed a government official on rationing and a new recommendation that women under the age of 50 shouldn’t get regular mammograms. Talking to one of the people behind the report, she chided, "Dr. [Thomas] Wilt, you know many are feeling that this is trying to save money, that this is a political move." Roberts challenged Wilt, who is with the...
The Healthcare Transformation (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week, US Preventive Services Task Force panel of independent experts issued a guide line for cancer screening and prevention. The guideline is based on real data and takes into account effectiveness of screening, radiation risks due to screening, and risk of being missed. The recommendation has been approved and supported by experts in the field. [...]
Extra Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"Extra" Lifechangers Dr. Peter Jokich and Dr. Kristi Funk provide more information on the controversial new breast cancer guidelines. Want more information? Leave a question for "Extra's" Lifechangers below.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Olivia Newton-John, Jaclyn Smith, and Sheryl Crow oppose new recommendations. Sheryl Crow - Olivia Newton-John - Conditions and Diseases - Cancer - Health
My Celebrity News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A Former American football player and Ohio State star Chris Spielman wife Stefanie Spielman. Stefanie Spielman was 30 years old and three months pregnant in 1998 when she detected a lump in her breast. She was a four time breast cancer survivor, and both she and Chris were active in raising funds for breast cancer research. Ultimately, she was died her fifth time breast cancer survivor. The couple...
Signaleer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
"I mean, why should we be concerned that a government task force has determined that breast cancer screening is too expensive for women under 50? It's not like any of us know any women who had breast cancer under the age of fifty" Subscribe in a reader
Lions Gab (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Stefanie Spielman, whose husband Chris played linebacker for the Lions, lost her courageous fight against breast cancer at the age of 42. Stefanie Spielman made her battle public over the past several years to draw attention to the disease. Chris Spielman played in Detroit from 1988-1995 and is still remembered as one of the greatest [...]
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
On Wednesday, Broadsheet's Mary Elizabeth Williams laid out some good reasons to be skeptical of The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new guidelines for breast cancer screening, which suggest mammograms every two years for women 50-74, as opposed to every year for women over 40. Although "the report does make a persuasive case that not all cancers are life-threatening, and that 'over detection'...
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obi jo | 11/17/2009
http://benkazie.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/confusion-no-mammograms-until-age-50-no-teaching-breast-self-examination/ Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer in women. An estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women and 1,910 cases in men will occur in 2009. Some 40,170 breast cancer deaths will have also occurred during 2009. The risk factors for breast cancer include...
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N.J. Paul
When was this panel formed? (prior or after President Obama took office)
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