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In 2002, the USPSTF (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force) recommended the performance of mammography as a screening in all women over 40 years of age to be repeated every 1-2 years. In an update in 2009, this recommendation has been reviewed according to the examination of risks and benefits, focusing the attention on the screening interval and on the age at which it can be proposed. According to this new examination, now the USPSTF is against the screening in younger women (40-49 years of age), who should undergo mammography only on an individual basis and not on a generalized one (C level recommendation: the intervention is not routinely recommended: there is only a moderate certainty that the obtained benefit is small. One can consider the use in the individual patient but not at a routine level)
MedNews (Oncology) - Mon, 6 September 2010
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After 1998, there has been a higher and higher intake of folic acid, because of some trials showing the importance of this substance in the prevention of neural tube defects, and following the fashion of these prescriptions the prophylactic indication has been spread also to the prevention of cardiovascular events (through the reduction of homocysteine levels), even if there is no evidence showing benefits in this indication.
MedNews (Oncology) - Tue, 31 August 2010
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Recent grants to a Baylor College of Medicine geneticist will help fund studies that seek to understand why some children are more at risk for cancer.
Baylor College of Medicine (Oncology) - Tue, 31 August 2010
http://www.bcm.edu
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Family history is an important risk factor for prostate cancer, but a new study suggests that the risk is inflated by diagnostic activity.
Medscape (Oncology) - Tue, 31 August 2010
http://www.medscape.com
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Specialist teams are needed to look after patients with a neglected type of cancer, says the health body NICE.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Oncology) - Tue, 27 July 2010
http://www.nice.org.uk
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After 1998, there has been a higher and higher intake of folic acid, because of some trials showing the importance of this substance in the prevention of neural tube defects, and following the fashion of these prescriptions the prophylactic indication has been spread also to the prevention of cardiovascular events (through the reduction of homocysteine levels), even if there is no evidence showing benefits in this indication.
MedNews (Oncology) - Mon, 26 July 2010
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Women given radiotherapy to treat cancer during childhood may be at a higher risk of suffering a stillbirth or baby dying, a study says.
BBC News (Oncology) - Mon, 26 July 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk
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A new guideline published today (26 July) by NICE calls for a re-organisation of cancer services to improve the care of patients whose cancer has spread to other parts of the body from an unknown primary location.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Oncology) - Mon, 26 July 2010
http://www.nice.org.uk
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To meet death without a surfeit of pain and discomfort is a fundamental right. Yet, according to The Quality of Death, a report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, it is a right denied to all but 8% of patients who need palliative care worldwide every year. The authors used a range of indicators to rank 40 countries by the quality and availability of their end-of-life care. The UK holds the top spot overall, bearing testament to the strides made since the foundation of St Christopher's Hospice—the first dedicated palliative care hospice in the world—in 1967. Globally, however, the picture is one of low standards and slow progress.
The Lancet (Oncology) - Mon, 26 July 2010
http://www.thelancet.com
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If, on one side, it is true that colonoscopy can recognize a colorectal cancer, on the other side, it is all the same true that some cases of cancer are diagnosed late because the patient is tardily sent to colonoscopy. In order to verify the frequency of these delays, some researchers have performed a retrospective trial involving 551 consecutive patients with recent diagnosis of colorectal cancer.
MedNews (Oncology) - Thu, 22 July 2010
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