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Bare Breast Exam on WJLA Creates Controversy

Women baring their breasts to show how to do a breast exam on WJLA TV are creating controversy and going against a broadcast television taboo against exposed breasts. ABC affiliate WJLA is airing a two-part series on TV that show women with fully exposed breasts doing a breast exam.

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American Cancer Society Rethinking Recommendations On Screening

For years, the American Cancer Society has promoted screening as an effective means of catching and killing tumors before they spread. Research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that screening for some cancers may be less effective than previously thought, and that in turn is leading the ACS to reconsider its advice.

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Breast Cancer May Be Developing Earlier

Researchers noted that breast cancer may be developing in more women at younger ages.

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Women With Breast Cancer Have Low Vitamin D Levels

Women with breast cancer are likely to have low levels of vitamin D, which could contribute to decreased bone mass and greater risk of fractures.

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Panther's Williams Behind NFL Wearing Pink Shoes

The Carolina Panthers head into Sunday's game against the Washington Redskins looking for their first win of the season. Regardless of the outcome of the game, Panthers' running back DeAngelo Williams is a winner. Williams is the one behind players throughout the NFL wearing pink cleats in support of breast cancer awareness.

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Vigorous Exercise Associated With Reduced Breast Cancer Risk

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and there's good news for post-menopausal women. Engaging in moderate to vigorous exercise may result in a reduced risk of breast cancer.

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New Test Assesses Individual Breast Cancer Risk

Some 692,000 American women are diagnosed with cancer according to the American Association for Critical Illness Insurance. About one quarter (26%) have breast cancer.

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Asian Spice Could Reduce Breast Cancer Risk

An estimated six million women in the United States currently use hormone replacement therapy to treat the symptoms of menopause.

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Breast Cancer Rates Drop 2 Percent Annually

Fewer women in the United States are dying from breast cancer, but disparities in death rates still exist according to a new study.

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Strategies for reducing painful breast cancer drug side effects

Aromatase inhibitors, the same drugs that have buoyed long-term survival rates among breast cancer patients, also carry side effects including joint pain so severe that many patients discontinue these lifesaving medicines. New University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine research, however, has uncovered patterns that may help clinicians identify and help women at risk of these symptoms sooner in order to increase their chances of sticking with their treatment regimen.

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Women prefere to remove healthy breast after cancer diagnosis

A new study of New York State data finds that the number of women opting for surgery to remove the healthy breast after a cancer diagnosis in one breast is rising, despite a lack of evidence that the surgery can improve survival.

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Bleeding Breast is Not An Emergency: Insurer

As rumors and misstatements continue to swirl about death panels and government limitations on insurance coverage, these are the stories insurance companies do not want you to hear. They are stories of insurance companies, their own death panels, and their own health care rationing. Would any woman out there, waking to a shirt soaked with blood and blood coming from their nipple, not rush to the ER?

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