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It's easy. Send a link to the story you were just reading to a friend. Just fill out the form on this page and we'll send it along. Your name and e-mail address are transmitted to the recipient. Full Article at Deseret News
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health says American women should ignore the mammogram recommendations of a government breast cancer panel. Full Article at United Press International
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 07: Cherie Blair arrives at The Breast Cancer Care 2009 Fashion Show at Grosvenor House Hotel on October 7, 2009 in London, England. View Photo »
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The Republicans, and Ms. [Marsha] Blackburn, have for the first time politicized breast cancer
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic lawmaker who has been treated for breast cancer says worries that the proposed health care overhaul would limit cancer screenings are overblown. Full Article at 1010 WINS
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From the $54 billion we've spent to rebuild Iraq, to the billions we're spending each year in Afghanistan, Bob Schieffer asks, if the money we've spent is providing us with the security we deserve? Full Article at CBS News
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The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gambling & Tax Cuts I really hate the fact that Obama and his minions have lied to us so many times that I no longer am willing to believe anything they do or say. Full Article at Independent Political Report
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 07: Cherie Blair arrives at the Breast Cancer Care 2009 Fashion Show at Grosvenor House Hotel on October 7, 2009 in London, England. View Photo »
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This type of legislation would have cost my wife her life ... She is a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed by a routine screening mammogram. And she was in her 40s when that mammogram was performed... It was a screening mammogram that saved her life.
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The first female to head the National Institutes of Health said Sunday she is advising women to ignore new recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which last week changed guidelines for mammographies from annually starting at age 40... Full Article at FOX News
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a breast cancer survivor, slammed Republicans for trying to use controversial new mamogram guidelines as an argument against Democrats' health care legislation. Full Article at The Politico
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The Republicans, and Ms. [Marsha] Blackburn, have for the first time politicized breast cancer
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This type of legislation would have cost my wife her life ... She is a breast cancer survivor, diagnosed by a routine screening mammogram. And she was in her 40s when that mammogram was performed... It was a screening mammogram that saved her life.
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In addition, AEG-1 has been known to have oncogenic roles in various cancers including glioma (CNS tumor), neuroblastoma, liver cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. These important correlations make this gene an intriguing molecule to study with po...
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The recommendation from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists comes on the heels of another recommendation to limit breast cancer screenings with mammograms. There are many questions unanswered for me, but one which immediately comes to mind is whether costs have anything to do with th...
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Not many people get a chance to recognize their mission in life and Stefanie's mission has obviously been to be a proponent for breast cancer research ... So this has been and certainly will continue to be an honorable quest we're on.
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We know that [breast cancer] grows every three to four months
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There's more breast cancer now than there has been and it's occurring in younger and younger women. It seems like they're following the European Union markers for what should be happening with breast cancer and their behind us ... I don't really understand myself what's going on. A life saved is a life ...
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To suggest that our bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, does anything other than reduce cost, ensure that insurers stop discriminating against women, and improve the health insurance system for the 192,000 American women diagnosed with breast cancer each year, is absurd
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If we can cut through the Republicans' political gamesmanship on this issue, the new breast cancer recommendations, as always, were an attempt to put the best possible evidence in the hands of women and their doctors, so they can assess their own risk and benefit
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A major issue with breast cancer is overdiagnosis
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My message to women is simple. Mammograms have always been an important life-saving tool in the fight against breast cancer and they still are today
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Women in Italy have had access to the therapeutic and quality of life benefits of IORT for years, but until this point, traditional breast cancer treatments in the United States involved surgery followed by 5-6 weeks of radiation or chemotherapy ... Sadly many women don't have access to radiation treatm...
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I never saw a commercial with a man saying, ‘I have breast cancer,’
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routine checkups and preventative care, like mammograms and colonoscopies—because there's no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse.
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The Republican health care plan does nothing to stop premium discrimination against women, does nothing to end denials based on pre-existing conditions, does nothing to make breast cancer care more affordable, and in fact does not even change the percentage of uninsured Americans
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We’re sending the wrong message to women ... Yes mammograms aren't perfect. It took me several doctors to find mine. But the point is if women don’t go at all, then we end up with a bigger problem and they end up with breast cancer that isn't curable.
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I've said many, many times on this program that, you know -- look at what the government rationing body in Great Britain did for women with advanced breast cancer. They were denied the drugs that could possibly save their lives. Because, why? The government couldn't afford it. And this is the real -- th...
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Women in India have started to get diagnosed with breast cancer at an early age 42 to 44 years. So to start screening at 50 will be futile. We should stick to 40 and screen women every year from then on. No damage is recorded from radiation if taken after 10 months.
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And the results speak for themselves. Where mammograms are used much more infrequently than the U.S., breast cancer mortality rates are 9 percent higher in Canada and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom! Is this what we are to expect once we have government-run health care as well?
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Women in the United States are being diagnosed with breast cancer earlier than their mothers were, as well as women in certain minority groups, says American College of Radiology chairwoman Dr. Constance Lehman. 'Black women in the U.S. develop breast cancer at a significantly younger age than Caucasian...
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I have a particular concern in this case about who was involved in this task force ... These are internal medicine doctors, pediatricians, family practitioners as well as OB-GYNs and nurses. There are no surgeons or oncologists who deal directly with breast cancer or even radiologists. … I’ve seen far t...
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I have a particular concern in this case about who was involved in this task force ... These are internal medicine doctors, pediatricians, family practitioners as well as OB-GYNs and nurses. There are no surgeons or oncologists who deal directly with breast cancer or even radiologists. … I’ve seen far t...
– Charles Boustany SOURCE: Human Events Online
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