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MAMMOGRAPHY:
Cash for Mammograms Is 'Ethically Troubling'. Breast cancer screening is a case in point: incentives for completion of mammograms are an ethically disconcerting distraction in a complex decision-making process. However, incentives for making an evidence-based active choice about breast screening can be ethical-even if this policy may avert fewer breast cancer deaths overall. National Poll Finds Majority of Women in Favor of Annual Mammogram. Fifty-seven percent of American women believe they should receive a mammogram annually, according to the Truven Health Analytics-NPR Health Poll.
Early mammography reduces breast cancer mortality with minor overdiagnosis rates. "Overall, these results support an early reduction mortality from breast cancer with annual mammography screening in women aged 40-49 years," Moss and colleagues wrote. "Synthesis of results from all the trials, and further data from modern service screening might clarify long-term effects. Cumulative incidence figures suggest at worst a small amount of over diagnosis."
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OU and Mercy Hospital OKC developing new screening models for breast cancer detection. OU and Mercy will develop and apply two new short-term breast cancer risk prediction approaches: a rule-in approach for identifying women who are excluded from current breast MRI screening guidelines but have a higher risk of developing or harboring mammography-occult (hidden) breast cancers, which can be detected by breast MRI; and a rule-out approach for women with an elevated lifetime cancer risk but no imminent risk.
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES: Preliminary results suggest Mediterranean diet reduces breast cancer risk. Women who were randomly assigned to follow a Mediterranean diet -- one with lots of fruits, vegetables, olive oil and fish, but not much red meat, dairy or sugar -- had a 68% lower risk of breast cancer after 4.8 years, compared to women told to follow a low-fat diet, according to the study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Acupuncture reduces hot flashes in breast cancer survivors. Hot flashes are particularly severe and frequent in breast cancer survivors, but current FDA-approved remedies for these unpleasant episodes, such as hormone replacement therapies are off-limits to breast cancer survivors because they include estrogen. Free DNA screening for breast cancer coming in October from HudsonAlpha institute. HudsonAlpha announced Wednesday it will test all interested women in Madison County, free for those age 30 and at cost for all other women. http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/08/free_breast_cancer_dna_screeni.html Ten Ways to Cut Epidemic of Breast Cancer Reoperation. To address this ongoing problem, the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBS) convened a special multidisciplinary consensus conference in May, entitled the Collaborative Attempt to Lower Lumpectomy Reoperation Rates (CALLER). Reactivation of multipotency by oncogenic PIK3CA induces breast tumour heterogeneity. The two most frequently mutated genes and are associated with different types of human breast cancers.
BLOGS: What the Headlines Got Wrong about the New DCIS Study. Recent news headlines have suggested that women with the earliest form of breast cancer should rethink undergoing treatment because it may not impact their long-term survival. But breast cancer experts interviewed for this article say the study results that spurred those headlines should not be interpreted as a message to forego or change standard treatment. Boobs, Fashion & Balls?? Like my title? well this article entails all 3 therefore what a better name?
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