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Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group
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...
AP via Yahoo! News, Fri Nov 20 13:24:25 PST 2009 Yahoo! News
Cancer screening: What could it hurt? A lot, actually
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 a...
Los Angeles Times, Sat Nov 21 00:13:17 PST 2009 Yahoo! News
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Here's what can happen when an asymptomatic person takes a screening test. Cancer screening
Los Angeles Times, Fri Nov 20 20:05:37 PST 2009 Yahoo! News
New cervical cancer screening guidelines released
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.
CNN, Fri Nov 20 07:59:11 PST 2009 Yahoo! News
US backs new start date for cervical cancer tests
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 t...
AFP via Yahoo! News, Fri Nov 20 07:40:07 PST 2009 Yahoo! News
New cervical cancer screening guidelines: report
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.
AFP via Yahoo! News, Fri Nov 20 07:28:32 PST 2009 Yahoo! News
Guidelines against self-exams for breast cancer ignite firestorm
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 Marc...
Baltimore Sun, Sat Nov 21 00:25:56 PST 2009 Yahoo! News
Slideshow: 4-year-old recovering from cancer
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 doctor...
San Jose Mercury News, Sat Nov 21 00:34:31 PST 2009 Yahoo! News
Area women wary of new advice on cancer tests
Recommendations that women get tested less frequently for cancer are prompting concerns at the local level.
Reno Gazette-Journal, Sat Nov 21 01:43:28 PST 2009 Yahoo! News