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Cancer Screenings

The Case for Lung Cancer Screening -- Now

Laurie Fenton Ambrose | Posted 04.11.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Detecting Lung Cancer, Cancer Screening Costs, Lung Cancer, Personal Health, Lung Cancer Screening Costs, Cancer Screening Trial, Cancer Screening, Early Detection Lung Cancer, Lung Cancer Screenings, Early Detection, Lung Cancer Treatment, Lung Cancer Screening, Cancer Screenings, Healthy Living News
Laurie Fenton Ambrose

Cancer screening in general has come under concerted attack. Until there is greater progress in treating late stage and metastatic cancers of any type and in making the highly-touted biomarkers tests more accurate, screening is only way to find cancer at an early, curable stage.

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Celebrating Women's Health and the Affordable Care Act

Cecile Richards | Posted 05.21.2012 | Politics
Read More: Mitt Romney, Women's Health, Obama, Aca, Cancer Screenings, Planned Parenthood, Birth Contl, Politics News
Cecile Richards

Americans aren't looking for a president to revoke women's rights and take away their health care. They're looking for a leader who wants to expand access to affordable care.

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Komen Abandons Contentious Plans After Backlash

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 04.04.2012 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Susan G Komen, Susan Komen, Video, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Pp, Susan G. Komen Planned Parenthood, Susan Komen Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood Funding, Breast Cancer, Susan G. Komen, Cancer Screenings, Planned Parenthood, Politics News

NEW YORK — For leaders of the nation's pre-eminent breast-cancer charity, it was a firestorm they didn't see coming – and couldn't withsta...

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Walker Targets Cancer Screenings

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 12.16.2011 | Politics
Read More: Well Women Program, Scott Walker, Walker Cancer Screenings, Mammograms, Walker Wisconsin, Cancer Screenings, Planned Parenthood, Scott Walker Wisconsin, Scott Walker Cancer Screenings, Politics News

First he gutted worker's rights, then slashed state education funding and dumbed-down sex ed....

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Colon Cancer Screenings Up, Breast Screenings Stalled

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Screenings Colon Cancer, Colon Cancer Screening, Cancer Screenings, Breast Cancer Screenings, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, Health, Cancer Test @Y:Health, Healthy Living News

ATLANTA — More older Americans are getting tested for colon cancer, with nearly two out of three getting recommended screenings. Meanwhile, rat...

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Beating Cancer, One Screening at a Time

Sylvia Sukop | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cancer Prevention, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, Colorectal Cancer, Cancer Colorectal, Cancer Screenings, Healthy Living News
Sylvia Sukop

Counteracting the social taboo that still surrounds colorectal cancer is crucial to its prevention and early detection. Silence borne of shame or ignorance can in fact equal death.

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What's Worse, Health Care or Cancer?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Cancer Treatment, Cancer, Cancer Screenings, Prevention, Health Care Crisis, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

The final fact is that American health care needs prevention more than anything else.

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