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...patients are steered into managed-care health insurance plans. They told the AP that expanding services to include routine preventive care would improve Planned Parenthood's chances of negotiating contracts to service Health Maintenance Organizations. Planned Parenthood's services currently are limited to counseling, abortions, gynecological exams, pregnancy and breast cancer tests, and dispensing contraceptives. TIME senior correspondent Richard Ostling says the move could also help cushion Planned Parenthood against anticipated cuts in the government funding it receives for pregnancy-related services, since a number of anti-abortion legislators and governors were elected last November...
Clinically, the technique can be used to let patients know whether or not they are predisposed to breast cancer and other hereditary disorders. But Mashal said the method is not 100 percent accurate, as most patients would prefer...
...Mammographies do little to reduce breast-cancer mortality for pre- menopausal women ages 40 to 49, a new analysis reveals. For women 50 and older, however, the screening tests reduce cancer deaths 26%. Researchers say mammography may be more effective for older women because their breasts have a higher fat content, thereby increasing the test's sensitivity in detecting small tumors. Despite the findings, the American Cancer Society still says women between 40 and 49 should have the screening each year...
...this case there is a lifestyle which is associated with reduced risk of breast cancer and is really linked to a type of diet which is not all that unpleasant to begin with," he said...
...only that, he said, "it could even protect you from coronary artery disease because we know that olive oil and vegetables and fruits are good for coronary disease, which is more of a killer than breast cancer...