Breast-Feeding Lowers Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis
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In a stark reversal of a long-term trend, more early-stage breast cancer patients are choosing mastectomy, despite evidence that the aggressive, disfiguring surgery has the same survival rate as removing the malignant lump, new research shows. (article 4)
The study by doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., suggests that a more detailed screening technique may have led additional women to have their breasts removed. (article 4)
Women who were physically active as teens and young adults were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who grew up sedentary, researchers report today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. (article 1)
Regular or digital mammograms? MRIs? For many years, physicians have followed the American Cancer Society guidelines, recommending that all women older than 40 have annual plain-film mammograms. (article 2)
Woman in their 40s are at fairly low risk for breast cancer, and their breast tissue is dense, which makes mammography sometimes difficult to interpret. (article 2)
The panel proposed a "shared decision making" approach in which physicians inform women of the risks and benefits of screening, periodically perform individualized assessment of cancer risk, and make decisions with each patient on a case by case basis. (article 2)
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Source articles
- Study says girls should stay active - (baltimoresun.com, 05/30/2008, 420 words)
- The Mammography Maze (sfgate.com, 05/29/2008, 603 words)
- Breast-Feeding Lowers Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis (nytimes.com, 05/27/2008, 214 words)
- Death and Dying, National Institutes of Health, Florida - (baltimoresun.com, 05/30/2008, 165 words)
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