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Ellen Goodman: Breast cancer blowup
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 5 days ago
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The scientists who surveyed the mammogram studies did their job honorably. They looked at research that has slowly and without a lot of fanfare questioned the value of routine mammograms for women in their 40s without other risk factors. They concluded...
Tags: Ellen Goodman, task force, younger women, Pittsburgh, Health Medical Pharma, Screening, Mammography, Prostate cancer, Cervical cancer, Medical imaging, Breast cancer, Oncology, Cancer
The fear factor
Wollongong :: Australia | 7 days ago
Credibility Every time I attempt a breast self-examination I find malignant cancer," jokes one woman. "So I won't even look at my breasts now," she adds more seriously. Another young woman laments the month of sleepless nights that coincided with finding a small...
Tags: breast cancers, breast self, Dr Helen Zorbas, actual risk, young women, Sandra Jones, Dr Nicholas Wilcken, younger women, ovarian cancers, Australia, Wollongong, Health Medical Pharma, Ovarian cancer, Mammography, Gynecology, Breast, Breast cancer, Oncology, Breast self-examination, Cancer
Congresswoman and cancer survivor touts importance of protecting young women from breast cancer
Naples :: FL :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fl, right, waits to speak at a luncheon sponsored by the Southwest Florida affiliate of the Susan G Komen Foundation of Southwest Florida and the Collier County Chapter of Hadassah on Friday at the Hyatt Regency Coconut...
Tags: breast cancer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, House, young women, younger women, care professionals, Naples, Mammography, Cancer, Mastectomy, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
Women make cardiac progress
New Delhi :: India | about 1 month ago
Credibility Heart attacks more common, but hospital survival rates improving October 27, 2009 Two new studies show that heart attacks have become more common among middle-aged women in the last two decades, but in-hospital survival rates, especially for younger...
Tags: studies, weight gain, ages women, younger women, survival rates, greater risk, national health
Younger Women’s Task Force Atlanta Metro Chapter Launches Programs to Serve Greater Atlanta Area
ATLANTA – The Younger Women’s Task Force (YWTF-ATL), a 501c3 charitable organization, founded earlier this year celebrates the start of programs to serve the Greater Atlanta area. An international project of the National Council for Women’s...
Tags: YWTF, Younger Women, Women Organizations, Women in Politics, Women in Non-Profits, Womens Health, Career, Mentorship, Environment, Violence, Women Issues, Feminism, National Council of Womens Organization, NCWO
Melanoma cases surge among young women
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Among young men, melanoma rates have remained steady, the study found. The most lethal of skin cancers, melanoma occurs in pigment-producing skin cells. The American Cancer Society estimates there will be 62,480 new cases of melanoma and 8,420 deaths...
Tags: skin cancers, melanoma cases, young men, increase number, federal health, younger women, younger men, women continue, health officials
Daily Telegraph, UK: Breast cancer more aggressive in young
Durham :: NC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Dr Kimberly Blackwell, a breast oncologist at Duke and senior investigator on the study, said: "Clinicians have long noted that the breast cancers we see in women under the age of 45 tend to respond less well to treatment and have higher recurrence rates...
Tags: breast cancers, younger women, older women, Duke University, developing better, targeting therapies
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