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New cervical cancer screening guidelines: report

AFP Global Edition 3 days ago

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. The New York Times reported Friday that the American College of Obstetricians is now advising ...

New cervical cancer screening guidelines issued

AFP American Edition 3 days ago

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. The New York Times reported Friday that the American College of Obstetricians is now advising ...

Stefanie Spielman, wife of NFL star, dies at 42

AP News 3 days ago

Stefanie Spielman, wife of Ohio State and NFL star, dies at 42 after long battle with cancer Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy ...

Task force doctor stands by mammogram advice

AP Features 4 days ago

A member of the independent panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion defended the task force's report, saying Thursday that it was based on the most up-to-date, accurate information available. Dr. Timothy Wilt, a member of the U.S. Preventive Services ...

New U.S. guidelines: routine mammograms start at 50

Reuters US Online Report Top News 4 days ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. health officials distanced themselves Wednesday from controversial new breast cancer screening guidelines that recommend against routine mammograms for healthy women in their 40s and said federal policy on screening mammograms had not changed. In a move likely to ...

U.S. official says mammograms policy unchanged

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 4 days ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. health officials distanced themselves Wednesday from controversial new breast cancer screening guidelines that recommend against routine mammograms for healthy women in their 40s and said federal policy on screening mammograms had not changed. In a move likely to ...

Mamogram Advice

AP News 5 days ago

Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., center, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, to discuss the new mammogram guidelines. From left are, Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Myrick, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. ...

Ex-Kiss drummer: Breast cancer not just for women

AP Features 5 days ago

Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast. "I thought, `It's a nodule, I'm a guy, I don't think it's anything more than that,'" he said. "The more I messed with ...

Anger at new age rules for breast cancer tests

AFP American Edition 5 days ago

Doctors and experts are in uproar over new recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening, warning more women will die from the disease which already claims some 40,000 lives each year. The high-level United States Preventative Services Task Force of ...

MALE BREAST CANCER 111709

AP News 5 days ago

Graphic shows the rise of male breast cancer rates since Copyright 2009 AP News

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