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Breast cancer ambassador on new screening guidelines
Video|Sun, 22 Nov 2009
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That is congresswoman -- herself a breast cancer survivor so. What is preventive medicine fit into the health care reform debate. Joining us now is ambassador Nancy Brinker founder of the
Straight talk on mixed signals about cancer screening
Video|Sun, 22 Nov 2009
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agree with this this will increase the number of women dying of breast cancer . Women in their forties have a very aggressive kind breast cancer and they tend to progressed fast. And to not screen women in that age group. Is astounding to me and it goes against. The bulk of of individuals or actually caring for patients may save some money Chris. Which are not gonna save lives and what would you tell a young woman about when she should start getting pap tests it to screen for cervical cancer . I think I I think the new recommendations that came out of the eight copper the American society of will be July and is very responsible and reasonable because we understand. Cervical cancer we know and it starts to sexually transmitted disease. It takes awhile to turn into cancer you don't just get that infection
association of medical experts that women could delay there for screening for cervical cancer until age 21 and then be -- less often. Joining us now to sort through this is doctor Bernadine Healy the first woman to have the National Institutes of Health. She is now health editor for US news and world report and he comes to us from Cleveland. Doctor -- Let's start with -- some practical advice for a woman met many of whom I'm sure are understandably confused at the end of this week. What would you tell a woman patient -- no particular history of breast cancer what she should do about.
on patient care for the most part and on oncology. -- and breast cancer or cervical cancer . It gets information from those groups but ultimately comes up with models you know Chris there's really -- no new information here. It's a different way of looking at the same problem. Their perspective this if you could cut in half the money we're spending on on on screening for breast cancer . And and lose only you know may be. 10% 20% of the benefit that's a good trade off a Doctor Who is
Are some people more susceptible to post traumatic stress disorder than others?
Video|Sun, 22 Nov 2009
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saying if your cholesterol is high right. Then you can have a heart attack that doesn't mean you're definitely gonna have a heart attack -- means your chances are that you are more likely to if you don't do something to --
Dr. Bernadine Healy on when women should have breast and cervical cancer screenings
Video|Sun, 22 Nov 2009
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the new guidelines say at age 21. A woman should start having pap smear . She can have it every other year when she moves into a thirties and if she's had three normal pap smears she
Dr. Bernadine Healy on the future of combating breast and cervical cancer
Video|Sun, 22 Nov 2009
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We have a long way to go. In understanding breast cancer it's many different diseases the genetics of variable we only -- beginning to scratch the surface. And the drugs that are coming along that tend to be genetically directed. In their early phases. So the fact that we have 40000 women still dying of breast cancer in this country despite the best we have the despite. Despite tomography despite. The medicines that we can offer women. Boy we
Dr. Bernadine Healy gives surprising breast and cervical cancer statistics
Video|Sun, 22 Nov 2009
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I think one thing that people should put in perspective. Is that breast cancer . Affects a 180000. Women a year and it kills 40000. And mammograms save lives particularly in women in their forties. In contrast. Cervical cancer . Basic -- cancer affects 11000 women and kills 3000. And these guidelines will in no way affect survival.
Keys to safe and thankful holiday
Video|Sat, 21 Nov 2009
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Every year at this time fire departments around the country are on high alert because Thanksgiving at what levels dangerous cooking that is just -- days of the year.
Dr. David Samadi recaps week in health news
Video|Sat, 21 Nov 2009
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We want first dubbed him symptoms from the common cold actually be confused with swine flue -- the answer is doctor Davidson body Fox News -- contributor and chief of robotics and minimally invasive surgery -- on I got my thanks for being here -- stop this crazy thing that happened at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia hundreds of kids showed up at the emergency room. -- parents thinking ahead swine flu. They had the common cold why. Fusion.
Well if you write a virus or common cold big record for runny nose. Is that typical common cold that we see in kids the symptoms is a big overlap between that and it's one and one in the run a
Dr. Siegel sorts out new screening guidelines for cervical cancer
Video|Fri, 20 Nov 2009
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it I wanna tell you a little about history. It's actually the pap test that has cut down dramatically on the incidence of cervical cancer in the United States . 500000 people in the world still get cervical cancer 288000. Diet that it's huge 80% of that is in developing countries in the US we have a great history since the 1950s. We have seen less and less cervical cancer we only get 11000 cases now per year you know why. Pap tests and now we have an outbreak of venereal warts in young people and that increases your risk for cervical cancer . So women under the age of 21 are exactly shut the closure beginning pap test and plus you believed to come in for their examination. And their pastors there are other doctors who would say that over
eighteen weighing in on our top story today those new guidelines for cervical cancer screenings these -- pap tests. Basically it all boils down to this the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says. That women should not start getting pap smears until they turn 21 and then. They only need to be screened for cervical cancer every other year or every three years after the age of thirty. We asked to cast your vote on this story at foxnews.com. Slash -- have the question after hearing these new. Guidelines a mammogram guidelines as well now the cervical cancer guidelines are you gonna followed up. And as you can see the results are pretty overwhelming 95% of you saying. You'll stick
Dr. Cynara Coomer looks at some of the stories that made headlines for the week of Nov. 15 on FoxNewsHealth.com
Video|Fri, 20 Nov 2009
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this week. A government appointed task force suggested that women should start breast cancer screenings every other year at the age of fifteen. That's ten years older than previously advised. The panel concluded that getting screen so early and so often leads to many false -- and unnecessary biopsies. But many doctors including myself the American cancer society and breast cancer survivors disagreed. And you study raises fresh concerns about that -- pipeline drugs used by millions of Americans to vote cholesterol. Studies question
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