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"… s magazines suggesting digital mammograms were more effective at finding breast cancer than traditional film tests. They played on emotions with mother and child …"
"… market.But experts say the newer technology has not been proven to improve breast cancer detection, particularly among women 65 and older who make up the vast majo …"
"… technology took off. In 2003, film mammograms made up all but 4 percent of breast cancer mammography claims. By 2008, digital mammography had trumped film, rising …"
"… by the Center suggests digital mammography may have increased the cost of breast cancer screening by more than $350 million from 2003 to 2008, further depleting t …"
"… mmography with less expensive film mammography found that the two types of breast cancer screens are equally effective at detecting cancers in most women, undersco …"
"… from 2003 to 2005, and found that digital mammograms increased the cost of breast cancer screening for older women by more than $350 million over that time period. …"
"… that in 10 years of annual mammograms, more than half of all women without breast cancer will be called back at least once for more testing, and about one in 12 wi …"
"… study that showed women working in those industries have a higher risk for breast cancer raised calls for protection of those workers.And after the study’s princ …"
"… ht,” she said. “We should be mad. One in nine women are diagnosed with breast cancer.”The six-year study, published Monday in the journal Environmental …"
"… e occupational histories of 1,006 women in Essex and Kent counties who had breast cancer, and another 1,146 who did not.The researchers, who came from Canada, the …"
"… e automotive plastics industry were almost five times as likely to develop breast cancer, prior to menopause, as women in a control group.Lead researcher James Bro …"
"… eport makes a forceful case for more research into environmental causes of breast cancer, which was diagnosed in 227,000 women, killed 40,000 and cost more than $1 …"
"… ental Research Coordinating Committee, the report notes that most cases of breast cancer “occur in people with no family history,” suggesting that “environme …"
"… action of federal research funding has gone toward examining links between breast cancer and ubiquitous chemicals such as the plastic hardening agent bisphenol A; …"
"… he chemical-intensive industry were nearly five times as likely to develop breast cancer, prior to menopause, as women in a control group. “That was essentially …"
"… f liberal organizations, creating political mail for the AFL-CIO, the National Education Association, and NARAL Pro-Choice America.Media Strategies & Research Web sit …"
"… ery difficult one to make. My point is, I am a 60-year-old woman and I get breast cancer. The probability that I get breast cancer is going to be 1 in 3 anyway. If …"
"… am a 60-year-old woman and I get breast cancer. The probability that I get breast cancer is going to be 1 in 3 anyway. If I were an employee who had been working f …"
"… orking for the DOE, would I or would I not expect to be compensated for my breast cancer when, perhaps, I had very little actual exposure?"Board member John Poston …"
"… r from my insurance company stating that they are investigating whether my breast cancer is a pre-existing condition. Mind you, my mammogram one year ago was compl …"
"… people explain why they disregard task force guidelines, they refer to its breast cancer statement. Many misinterpreted the statement to mean that women in their 4 …"
"… insufficient evidence to recommend screenings for those 75 and over. Many breast cancers grow so slowly that older women would die of other causes before the canc …"
"… them, the task force said. In addition, women in this age group who do get breast cancer are more likely to get a type which is much more easily treatable, so earl …"
"… Still, Medicare spent more than $1 billion screening these older women for breast cancer between 2003 and 2008, iWatch News found. That was 38 percent of …"
"… mprecise.The analysis of Medicare claims for prostate, cervical, colon and breast cancer screenings was based on procedure codes obtained from documents and guidel …"
"… to high levels of atrazine have been documented to grow eggs.In 2004, the European Union banned atrazine because it was consistently showing up in drinking water a …"