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Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

09-09-2010, 07:08 AM

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Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

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Lessons from the Mammography Wars

A thoughtful piece was published in the New England Journal of Medicine about the miscommunication that took place last November of what the USPSTF tried to convey and the complicity of certain...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

01-13-2010, 11:32 AM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

Mammography Screening for Women Under Fifty

The storm that greeted the USPSTF guidelines on mammography screening for women in their 40s prompted the Senate to insert a mandate in its health care reform bill that every insurer cover every...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

01-12-2010, 11:13 AM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

Follow the mammogram money

Wall Street Journal's Alicia Mundy reported that the final health care bill in Congress is likely to require coverage for more mammagrams than the US recommended after women's groups, doctors and...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

11-30-2009, 12:25 PM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

The Politics of Mammograms

Rather than explaining the science behind the recommendation, the news media exploited the politics of it. The press has succeeded in sowing seeds of confusion and doubt.

"USPSTF recommends...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

11-29-2009, 10:21 PM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

Mammography and the Corporate Breast

The USPSTF would seem as unlikely a target for attack as Santa's elves. For a quarter-century, this squeaky-clean, underappreciated group of doctors and nurses who are specialists in preventive...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

11-28-2009, 01:41 PM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

Re: Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Rich

I totally agree. Surgery with clean margins is the largest contributor to survival. Whoever has been cured of cancer, began with an operation. Not only in the early stage, I would recommend...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

11-27-2009, 07:49 PM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment

The New York Times reports a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted that data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that view into...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

11-25-2009, 06:33 AM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

Understanding the new mammography guidelines

The Washington Post addressed the mammogram recommendations by asking some questions to Kay Dickersin, director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Center for Clinical Trials at the John Hopkins...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

11-25-2009, 06:31 AM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

The other side of the coin - radiation risk

The other side of the coin is radiation risk imposed by mammography. It is not simply of negligible value in younger women, but may have a net harm effect, if women who have mammograms at age 40...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

11-21-2009, 07:13 AM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

USPSTF mammogram recommendation is not new

The news about mammograms is not brand new information based on one study that just came out. The recommendations that the Preventive Services Task Force (PSTF) released is based on research that...

Forum: Breast Cancer Newsfeed

11-19-2009, 05:21 PM

Replies: 13

Revised Guidelines Say Most Women Can Begin Mammograms At Age 50

Views: 2,469

Posted By gdpawel

American Cancer Society's Brawley Backpedaling

According to the Atlantic's John Crewdson, the only American reporter at the Stockholm news conference in 2002, on The Lancet publication of the Swedish meta-analysis, analyzing and updating the...

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