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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:58 AM

Annual Screening

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First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 7 hours ago - 3 Documents

And now the guidelines for cervical cancer screenings have changed. What's going on?

While the well-publicized controversy over revised recommendations for the onset and frequency of mammograms is still being batted around by women, their doctors, government officials, and cancer organizations, more news has been released about changed ... [Yahoo! Shine - 7 hours ago]

Entities: CERVICAL CANCER, Pap Smear, cervix, Mammography

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents (in Medicine)

Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

Your one stop pundit shop. Otis W. Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society says: On Monday, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force took a step backward in the fight against breast cancer. The task force announced that it ... [Daily Kos - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Task Force, Mammography, Donald Lambro, American Cancer Society, Cal Thomas

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)

NEAL STATEMENT ON BREAST CANCER SCREENING Urges women to continue routine screening

NEAL STATEMENT ON BREAST CANCER SCREENINGUrges women to continue routine screening(WASHINGTON) Congressman Richard E. Neal issued the following statement today after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced controversial new breast cancer screening ... [US House of Representatives - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Breast Cancer, Mammography, Health Insurance, Task Force

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Mikulski Troubled by New Mammogram Recommendations

BALTIMORE, MD – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Help, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today made the following statement about new mammogram recommendations issued by the United States Preventive Services Task ... [U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Mammography, Task Force, Barbara A Mikulski, Annual Screening

First Reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Medicine)

Cancer Screening Debate Reveals Risks, Benefits of Testing

MARGARET WARNER: Science and medicine have long grappled with the tradeoffs involved in cancer screening. What's not clear is whether today's new Pap smear guidelines, coupled with another panel's recommendations earlier this week to scale back mammograms ... [PBS - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Margaret Warner, Mammography, CERVICAL CANCER

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 3 Documents (in Biology)

Mammography Every Other Year Has Benefits Of Annual Screening, But Less Harm

A comprehensive analysis of various mammography screening schedules suggests that biennial (every two years) screening of average risk women between the ages of 50 and 74 achieves most of the benefits of annual screening, but with less harm. The results ... [Medical News Today - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Mammography, Annual Screening, biopsy, Breast Cancer

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 5 Documents

Benefit of annual mammographs questioned: study

US health authorities have issued guidelines questioning the benefit of annual screening for breast cancer in women aged 40-49 and recommended only biennial mammograms for women over 50.In an update of its 2002 recommendations, the US Preventive Service ... [France24 - culture - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Mammography, Annual Screening, Task Force

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 5 Documents (in Biology)

Radiology Groups: Recommended Mammogram Guidelines Will Increase Breast Cancer Deaths

Angry radiology groups are blasting a government panel's recommendations that women ages 40 to 49 forgo annual screening mammograms and that women between age 50 and 74 should have screening mammograms only once every other year rather than annually.The ... [Health Leaders - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Mammography, Breast Cancer, Radiology

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 3 Documents (in Biology)

Panel: Screening Mammograms Should Start at 50

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommends Routine Mammography Screening Every 2 YearsBy Salynn BoylesWebMD Health News Reviewed By Nov. 16, 2009 -- A government appointed expert panel is calling for huge changes in breast cancer screening in the ... [eMedicine Health - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Mammography, Breast Cancer, Task Force

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents (in Medicine)

Annual Screening Mammography Continues to be Recommended in Updated NCCN Guidelines for Breast...

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. 'For women age 40 and over, the benefits of annual breast screening continue to outweigh the risks,' says Therese B. Bevers, MD, of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and chair of the NCCN Guidelines Panel for Breast ... [Forbes.com - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Mammography, Annual Screening, National Comprehensive Cancer Network

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Health Care Tuesday

Helen Branswell on what's really happening with H1N1: Confirmed H1N1 death tallies capture the blessedly few times someone who caught this bug died from it after testing positive for it. The seasonal flu numbers are estimates, mathematical calculations ... [Daily Kos - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Influenza A H1N1 Virus, HIV/AIDS, Mammography, Health Care

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

Biennial mammography recommended for women aged 50–74 years

Six independent research groups have unanimously shown that biennial mammography screening of average risk women between the ages of 50 and 74 years old achieves most of the benefit of annual screening with less harm. ... [MedWire News - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Mammography, Annual Screening

Quotes

...change its guidelines and responded to the USPSTF report with a statement from Otis W Braley, M D , chief medical officer of that reads, in part: " continues to recommend annual screening using mammography and clinical breast examination for all women beginning at age 40. Our experts make this recommendation having reviewed virtually all the same data reviewed by the USPSTF, but also additional data that the USPSTF did not consider. When recommendations are based on judgments about the balance of risks and benefits, reasonable experts can look at the same data and reach different conclusions."

New Mammogram Guidelines: How many deaths are enough? [Care2 - 11/20/2009]

...But such treatment may not be necessary.'When teens get these changes, it behaves differently,' Waxman said. "They are more likely to get better by themselves and less likely to get cancer." For adult women, annual screening was originally based on the concept that the longer women wait between Pap tests, the more likely they are to have a...

Group recommends less-frequent Pap tests [Los Angeles Times - 11/20/2009]

Wasserman-Schultz said those hearings "will help us reach the appropriate policy conclusion, which I believe is that these recommendations should be set aside." Breast cancer is the most common cancer for U S women, with nearly 200,000 women expected to be diagnosed with the invasive form of the disease this...

U.S. health chief: No change on... [CNN - 11/18/2009]

More Content

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And now the guidelines for cervical cancer scre... [Yahoo! Shine - 7 hours ago]
Cancer Screening Debate Reveals Risks, Benefits... [PBS - 9 hours ago]
The New Mammogram Guidelines: What You Need to ... [Time - 12 hours ago]
ACOG Calls for Later and Fewer Pap Tests [MedPage Today - 16 hours ago]
NEAL STATEMENT ON BREAST CANCER SCREENING Urges... [US House of Representatives - 17 hours ago]
Cervical cancer screening recommended every two... [Hemonctoday - 17 hours ago]
New Mammogram Guidelines: How many deaths are e... [Care2 - 11/20/2009]
Group recommends less-frequent Pap tests [Los Angeles Times - 11/20/2009]
The Controversy Over Mammograms [New York Times - 11/20/2009]
Sebelius's cave-in on mammograms is a setback f... [Washington Post - 11/20/2009]
Arkansas Blue Cross, Health Advantage Continue ... [BCBS Health Issues.com - 11/20/2009]
USPSTF's new guidelines for mammography: The Ma... [News-Medical.Net - 11/19/2009]
Annual mammograms only for high-risk women unde... [Cancer Facts - 11/19/2009]
Mikulski Troubled by New Mammogram Recommendations [U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski - 11/19/2009]
A step back for breast cancer [Washington Post - 11/19/2009]
A setback in the cancer war [Washington Post - 11/19/2009]
Editorial: A new mammogram Rx [Chicago Tribune - 11/19/2009]
New Mammography Guidelines Portend Seismic Shif... [Advance for Nurses - 11/19/2009]
Rationing's First Step [Yahoo! Canada - 11/19/2009]
Breast Center Imaging and Administrative Direct... [Johns Hopkins Medicine - 11/18/2009]
U.S. health chief: No change on... [CNN - 11/18/2009]
PROFNET EXPERT ALERTS: New Mammogram Guidelines [Street Insider - 11/18/2009]
Mammogram guidelines: What's changed? [MayoClinic.com - 11/18/2009]
NBCC: Revised USPSTF guidelines will put screen... [News-Medical.Net - 11/18/2009]
U.S. health chief: No change on mammogram policy [CNN - 11/18/2009]
U.S. health chief says no to changing mammogram... [CNN - 11/18/2009]
HHS: No mammogram change [CNN - 11/18/2009]
HHS chief says no to changing mammogram policy [CNN - 11/18/2009]
New mammography guidelines unleash storm of con... [HealthCareIT News - 11/18/2009]
New mammography guidelines spark controversy ov... [Healthcare Finance News - 11/18/2009]

Blogs

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Mom, This Post Is For You [NO QUARTER - 11/20/2009] Nunly (aka, Divine Democrat), has allowed us to publish her post from Bad Habit. Last night, while watching TV, I heard a blip on the news about how woman are ...
Why not lower the recommended mammogram age to ... [Health Business Blog - 11/20/2009] The controversy over the recent mammogram screening recommendation from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is quite interesting. The pieces ...
The Mammogram Conundrum [Conglomerate - 11/19/2009] Anyone who is interested in behavioral psychology has to be fascinated by the consequences of The United States Preventive Services Task Force reporting this week ...
Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up [Daily Kos - 11/19/2009] Your one stop pundit shop. Otis W. Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society says: On Monday, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ...
Health Care Tuesday [Daily Kos - 11/17/2009] Helen Branswell on what's really happening with H1N1: Confirmed H1N1 death tallies capture the blessedly few times someone who caught this bug died from it after ...

Audio/Video

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Mammography Screening Guidelines-Mayo Clinic [Mayo Clinic - YouTube - 11/16/2009]

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