Mammograms lead to breast cancer "overdiagnosis" in 1 million women, study finds | Reduction

Mammograms lead to breast cancer "overdiagnosis" in 1 million women, study finds

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A big U.S. study published in the Nov. 22, 2012 New England Journal of Medicine shows that mammograms have done surprisingly little to catch deadly cancers before they spread and have led more than a million women to be treated for growths that never would have threatened their lives.  / AP Mammograms may not offer the life-saving benefits many women may hope for, new research suggests. A big study of the U.S. population finds that mammograms have done surprisingly little to catch deadly breast cancers before they spread. What's more, the researchers found more than one million women have been treated for cancers that likely would never have posed a threat to their lives. The study suggests that up to one-third of breast cancers -- or 50,000 to 70,000 cases a year -- don't need treatment.

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-0.120814	"Instead, we're diagnosing a lot of something else - not cancer" in that early stage, Bleyer said. "And the worst cancer is still going on, just like it always was."
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Dr. Len Lichtenfeld

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-0.330496	Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the cancer society's deputy chief medical officer, said the study should not be taken as "a referendum on mammography," ...
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Dr. Barnett Kramer

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Dr. Julia A. Smith

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-0.107698	"This study is important because what it really highlights is that the biology of the cancer is what we need to understand" in order to know which ones to treat and how, said Dr. Julia A. Smith, ...
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Dr. Linda Vahdat

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Mammograms lead to breast cancer "overdiagnosis" in 1 million women, study finds

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U.S. study suggests that up to one-third of breast cancers -- or 50,000 to 70,000 cases a year -- don't need treatment

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Panel pushes for Americans ages 15 to 64 to get tested for HIV | Essentials

Panel pushes for Americans ages 15 to 64 to get tested for HIV

We are FACING AIDS to help prevent the spread of HIV. I am supporting the National HIV/AIDS Strategy because together we can make a difference. by AIDSgov
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There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks. Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once - not just people considered at high risk for the virus, an independent panel that sets screening guidelines proposed Monday. The draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are the latest recommendations that aim to make HIV screening simply a routine part of a check-up, something a doctor can order with as little fuss as a cholesterol test or a mammogram. Since 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has pushed for widespread, routine HIV screening. Yet not nearly enough people have heeded that call: Of the more than 1. 1 million Americans living with HIV, nearly 1 in 5 - almost 240,000 people - don't know it.

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0.0206859	Mermin calls that "a tragedy. It's a missed opportunity."
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Dr. Douglas Owens

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Panel pushes for Americans ages 15 to 64 to get tested for HIV

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Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once - not just people considered at high risk for the virus, an independent panel that sets screening guidelines proposed

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600-pound woman desperate to lose weight, walk again | Synopsis

600-pound woman desperate to lose weight, walk again

Lose weight now by Alan Cleaver
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Lanoise, a single mother of six, was born in Haiti, and her main goal is just to walk again. “You are going to die in this bed; this bed is your coffin,” said Dr. Oscar Hernandez, Lanoise’s doctor, who makes a house call in Wednesday’s episode. Lanoise is dependent on appetite-suppressing powder, which she sprinkles on Haitian food, despite doctor’s orders to eat healthier. At one point, Lanoise was close to her target weight – but the lure of Haitian food that she enjoys so much was too tempting. “I don’t want to lie, I cheat,” she said. “But sometimes I feel so hungry. ” Hernandez said Lanoise was banking on the weight-loss powder to work, but she needs to realize that’s not going to be a permanent solution. “I do need to have a conference with her daughters, make sure they support what we’re doing,” Hernandez said.

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Dr. Oscar Hernandez

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0.138471	“I do need to have a conference with her daughters, make sure they support what we’re doing,” Hernandez said. “I’m not here 24 hours a day.”
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Lanoise

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0.0342533	“I don’t want to lie, I cheat,” she said. ...
0.0342533	“I don’t want to lie, I cheat,” she said. “But sometimes I feel so hungry.”
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600-pound woman desperate to lose weight, walk again

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Dominique Lanoise, a 600-pound food addict, remains trapped in her bedroom  -- and desperate to lose weight

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