Tag: American Cancer Society

      Women Confused Over Mammogram Guidelines

      August 3, 2011 /

      Women are more confused than ever about mammograms and breast health.

      Conflicting information has left some real questions regarding when to test, how often to test and the risk of testing and biopsy.

      Health professionals are worried that the misinformation will discourage women from getting screened and leave them unnecessarily concerned over potential risks.

      Screening guidelines have been controversial for decades, but the issue exploded nearly two years ago when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against routinely providing the screening for women in their 40s. The task force said the decision should be based on individual considerations and said overscreening caused stress, unnecessary testing and other negatives outcomes.

      Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      Watch out for tanning “Prescriptions” from doctors

      May 30, 2011 /

      Although many people think otherwise, a good tan does not equal good health. In reality, tanning is the skin’s way of telling you that it has been damaged.

      The American Osteopathic College of Dermatology endorses the position of the American Cancer Society and the U.S.

      Department of Health and Human Services on the topic of tanning.

      And that position is that tanning, whether outdoors or indoors, poses a danger to one’s health.

      A high school junior in frigid Vermont, Payet had been tired and unhappy for weeks when her family doctor gave her a diagnosis of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a fall and wintertime melancholy brought on by changes in ambient light, body temperature and hormone regulation. He told her to get some sun. “But it’s not like I could take a long vacation,” Payet recalls. “He said that going to a tanning bed would do the trick.”

      She went three times a week from February right through the summer. For about the next three years, she’d pop in now and then. She didn’t realize there could be long-term effects: “I loved being tan, and I thought I looked and felt healthy.”

      Research, Resources, Wellness

      African-Americans With Liver Cancer Get Fewer Transplants

      May 14, 2011 /

      The treatment of liver liver cancer is expensive, high tech and on the rise.

      But that doesn’t address the issue fully.

      African -Americans face obstacles such as, lack of insurance, information, community and family support.

      There is also the issue of discrimination within the medical community toward minority patients.

      American Cancer Society statistics have shown the following:

      African Americans with liver cancer are less likely than whites to get a transplant for the disease, according to U.S. researchers.

      About one in 100 men in the U.S. develop the cancer at some point, while women are less than half as likely to do so, according to the American Cancer Society

      The researchers found that over the first half of the study, white liver cancer patients had a 30 percent chance of receiving a new liver, compared to only 15 percent for blacks.

      Although there are probably several reasons for the disparity, the biggest driver is the difference in access to care at the early stages of the disease due to health insurance.

      Research, Wellness

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