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Cancer centre opens to the public (BBC News)
Sat Nov 21 03:24:59 PST 2009
A new Oxfordshire cancer unit opens its doors to help demystify the disease and the treatments patients receive.
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Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group (AP via Yahoo! News)
Fri Nov 20 13:24:25 PST 2009
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't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
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Cancer screening: What could it hurt? A lot, actually (Los Angeles Times)
Sat Nov 21 00:13:17 PST 2009
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 angst. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Cancer screening (Los Angeles Times)
Fri Nov 20 20:05:37 PST 2009
Here's what can happen when an asymptomatic person takes a screening test. Cancer screening
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New cervical cancer screening guidelines released (CNN)
Fri Nov 20 07:59:11 PST 2009
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.
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US backs new start date for cervical cancer tests (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Fri Nov 20 07:40:07 PST 2009
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 tests.
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New cervical cancer screening guidelines: report (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Fri Nov 20 07:28:32 PST 2009
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.
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Delayed Pap test proposal, breast cancer report fuel health fight (The Washington Times)
Sat Nov 21 03:09:19 PST 2009
A leading medical group added new fuel to a budding health care controversy on Friday by recommending that women delay their first cervical-cancer screening until age 21 instead of starting the test three years after becoming sexually active. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists...
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Breast cancer activists are walking the walk (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Sat Nov 21 01:52:01 PST 2009
Talk about hot pink. A strong undercurrent of anger ran beneath the sea of symbolic pink gear gracing thousands of people yesterday, on Day One of San Diego’s annual three-day walk to raise money and hope for breast cancer research.
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Syracuse peels away at North Carolina to win Coaches vs. Cancer tournament championship (New York Daily News)
Fri Nov 20 22:20:00 PST 2009
The Orange capped an overpowering two days at the Garden Friday night by dominating No. 6 North Carolina, 87-71, before 15,552 in the championship game of the tournament to benefit Coaches vs. Cancer.
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