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Blanca Rubio performs a mammogram on a 65-year-old patient at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill., on Oct. 16 Chicago Tribune / MCT / Landov If the brouhaha following a government advisory panel's recent change in...
Change in Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations Is a Welcome Step OPINION By MARIE SAVARD, M.D. ABC News Medical Contributor may seem like another blow to women's health. The new guidelines from the ACOG recommend the...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating fruits and vegetables, and drinking tea and red wine may offer overweight men and normal weight women some protection from colon and rectal cancers, hint study findings from the Netherlands.
From ANI Washington, Nov 21: People with rare pancreatic cancer, called pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (PNTs), might live longer if treated with radiation therapy, says a study. The researchers found that this method is...
High irradiances of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) should not be used over melanomas. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Cancer studied the pain relieving, anti-inflammatory 'cold laser', finding that it caused...
My first question was about the timing. Why was the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) releasing its new guidelines on pap smears for cervical cancer this week, when politicians and the public were still...
CBS News When health screening has a downside Los Angeles Times Routine cancer testing saves lives, but it also leads to biopsies, surgeries, radiation, even deaths that otherwise would not have occurred. But experts'...
Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma...
Reuters In Cancer Testing, Less Is Now Better Wall Street Journal Worries that widespread screening for breast and cervical cancers can yield limited benefit and lead to unnecessary harm prompted decisions this week by two...
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care _ and to try to chip...
