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...Official U.S. health recommendations are usually issued in obscure government bulletins or scientific journals. But it was Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson himself who stepped to the podium last week to issue the government's final take on the mammography controversy that has raged for months among breast-cancer specialists. The bottom line: a strong endorsement of mammography and the current National Cancer Institute recommendation that women 40 and older get a mammogram every year...
...players return this personal interest, Ackerman said, by promoting women’s issues, including breast cancer awareness programs...
...This year, according to the American Cancer Society, some 200,000 women (and 1,500 men) will learn that they have breast cancer?up from a little more than 100,000 two decades ago. While the death rate from the disease has dropped modestly over the past decade, there is a growing sense of frustration among cancer experts. Part of the problem is DCIS. Thirty years ago, these miniature tumors, which usually don't spread into the rest of the body, were diagnosed in some 6% of breast-cancer patients. Today the ratio is closer to 20%, largely because...
...tumor seven years earlier that turned out to be benign. But this time was different. A biopsy confirmed that Ulene, the niece of former Today show medical expert Art Ulene, had ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, a growth that is variously described as either an early-stage breast cancer or a precancerous lesion. "It was very confusing," says Ulene, a color stylist for Walt Disney TV Animation. "I needed to know more...
...Surgeons are developing several techniques that destroy tumors while sparing more breast tissue?without reducing the chances of survival. (This can be particularly important for small-breasted women who don't necessarily have a lot of tissue to spare in the first place...