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Mammogram Recommendations

Catherine Pearson

Are Young Women Rejecting Mammogram Guidelines?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 04.19.2013 | Women
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It has been more than three years since a high-profile medical task force issued controversial guidelines saying that most women age 40 to 49 should n...

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Mammograms Every Other Year Don't Raise Advanced Breast Cancer Risk, Study Finds

Reuters | Posted 05.18.2013 | Healthy Living
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, March 18 (Reuters) - In the latest installment in the mammogram debate, a new study finds that getting a...

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Mammograms Suck, So Can We At Least Have A Nice Robe?

Elizabeth Dosoretz | Posted 04.13.2013 | Style
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Elizabeth Dosoretz

Just sayin'.

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New Study May Change How You Feel About Mammograms

Posted 02.06.2013 | Fifty
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When it comes to detecting breast cancer, no one disagrees that mammograms -- x-ray imagining of breasts -- are an important tool for finding changes ...

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Suspected Drug-Popping Couple Is 1st Netted By 'Caylee's Law' For Tot Found In Closet

AP | KRISTI EATON | Posted 08.23.2012 | Crime
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- As a 2-year-old girl lay dead in the closet of a South Dakota home, another child invited two young neighbors over to take a look...

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Catherine Pearson

Susan G. Komen Accused Of 'Overselling' Mammograms

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 08.03.2012 | Women
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Susan G. Komen For The Cure has misled women about the benefits of mammography, two Dartmouth professors charge in an op-ed published in the British M...

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Surprise? Half Of Women Over 40 Are Skipping Mammograms

AP | By MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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SAN ANTONIO -- Remember the uproar last year when a government task force said most women don't need annual mammograms? It turns out that only half of...

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Mammograms May Not Benefit Women Over 50

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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LOS ANGELES — Mammograms don't help women over 50 as much as has been believed, new research suggests. Only a third of the reduced risk of deat...

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The Great Mammography Debate: "Peace of Mind" Or "Power Of Me?" What Kind Of Person Are You?

Mehmet Oz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Mehmet Oz, M.D.

The new task force recommendations on mammograms are not a blanket, one-size-fits-all prescription for every woman. Guidelines should never replace a dialogue with your own doctor that considers individual risk.

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