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Washington (AFP) - Women should get screened for breast cancer every other year starting from the age of 40 to reduce their risk of dying from the disease, an influential US body recommended on Tuesday. The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of experts that receives federal funding, previously said that women in their 40s should make an individual decision about when to start mammograms based on their health history and reserved its mandatory recommendation for people turning 50. Its new guidance was based on a review of evidence and a modeling study published in ...
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Washington (AFP) - Even when the disease is caught early, breast cancer recurrence is relatively commonplace -- and for survivors, the prospect can be daunting. A drug developed by Swiss pharmaceutical maker Novartis has now been shown to reduce this risk by a quarter in a large group of early-stage survivors, offering patients new hope. Results from a clinical trial were presented Friday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) annual meeting. The study of ribociclib, which belongs to a newer class of medicines known as molecularly targeted therapies, was described as a "very imp...
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Washington (AFP) - All women should get mammogram screening for breast cancer starting from age 40, rather than 50, an influential US health body announced Tuesday, a move it said could save thousands of lives. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer and the second most common cause of cancer death for women in the United States, killing around 42,000 women and 500 men, according to official data. Black women are 40 percent more likely to die than white women. The Preventive Services Task Force, a group of independent experts appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services, sai...
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