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View Post: GOPers tie breast cancer change to healthcare reform - The Hill's ...
13 hours ago by eric.zimmermann@thehill.com (Eric Zimmermann)  
Republican senators tried to make the case today that new recommendations on breast cancer screening foreshadow the rationing that would take place under Democratic healthcare reform. A preventive medicine task force recommended last ...
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View Post: Olympian applauds Episcopal junior's service against breast cancer ...
5 hours ago by Times-Union  
And by selling candy bars, pizza, soda, pink ribbons, bracelets and raffle tickets at Episcopal, she raised about $4000 more for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which raises money for breast cancer research and education. ...
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View Post: www.ThePalination.com: Bureaucratization of Breast Cancer Screening?
5 hours ago by Whitney The Pipsqueak  
This report states that women between the age of 40-49, who are not at increased risk for breast cancer, are no longer recommended to have mammograms. I found their reasoning to be a bit weak. The report states that beginning ...
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View Post: The American Spectator : Breast Cancer Follies
18 Nov 2009 by Robert M. Goldberg  
Because heart disease kills more women than breast cancer, that decision could be even more dangerous for women because it is based on -- or biased towards -- old, even outdated methods for determining risk for a serious illness. ...
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View Post: 'Top Line' -- Did Breast Cancer Recommendations Revive 'Death ...
19 Nov 2009 by ABCNews.com  
The new recommendations for breast cancer screening are entirely unrelated to President Obama's push for health care reform. But, in a particularly unfortunate stroke of timing for Democrats, the two issues have become confused and ...
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View Post: Mammogram Controversy: 'Politics Is Always Intruding Into The ...
14 hours ago
This is not the first time that breast cancer has become a big political issue, according to Dr. Barron Lerner, associate professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and author of "The Breast Cancer ...
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