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Past and Present Statistics on Public Health and Breast Cancer

I've been reading and listening to the debate on the new screening guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for almost a week now and trying to sort through the various claims.   Two historical figures who have fascinated me for years have stories that seem pertinent to the debate.  The first is Dr. Ignaz... Read moreChevron
posted 11/22/2009, comments (3)|
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Young women and breast health -- support the EARLY Act

I am happy to see the community debating the EARLY Act on this site. Approximately 36,000 new breast cancer cases are diagnosed in US women under the age of 50 each year -- more than the total number of cervical and ovarian cancers diagnosed annually. Even still, too many young women are told not to worry about breast cancer. The EARLY Act... Read moreChevron
posted 11/04/2009, comment (1)|
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The verdict is in...

The envelope plopped on the table... and I knew before it was open.  The nurse who summoned me to the tiny exam room to talk to the oncologist before chemo wasn't her bubbly self.  Body language gives it away when news isn't good.  The ARNP smiled at me but it wasn't the smile that says you're going to love this report.  It was... Read moreChevron
posted 11/04/2008, comments (2)|
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Interview: Gabriela Mejia Talks About Her Plans for a New Book, Cleavage: New Ways To Look

  Nikolai Hamel: Briefly, what is your project and what inspired it? How did you choose the name?   Gabriela Mejia: My project is to produce and curate a coffee table book called CLEAVAGE: New Ways to Look. It's a deliberately seductive art book, focused on edgy and provocative visual and textual representations of cleavage and... Read moreChevron
posted 10/15/2008, comments (3)|
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President, National Breast Cancer Coalition
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Improvements in Breast Self-Examinations

Are you surprised about this past week's news on breast self-exams (BSE)? The Cochrane Collaboration reported that Jan Peter Kosters, Ph.D., and Peter Gotzsche, Ph.D., of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, updated their 2003 review of BSE studies. Kosters and Gotzsche's conclusion remains the same: "At present, screening by breast self-examination...... Read moreChevron
posted 07/23/2008, comment (1)|
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