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- Breast-screening cutbacks raise ire of California lawmakers - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
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| Breast-screening cutbacks raise ire of California lawmakers - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Posted: 26 Dec 2009 09:03 PM PST SACRAMENTO -- The dollars saved are nearly negligible, but the political costs of scaling back breast cancer screening for tens of thousands of low-income women have turned out to be huge. Twenty-one members of California's congressional delegation -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- have sent a letter rebuking the governor for the move, and state lawmakers are warning that people will die. Audits are being demanded. "Diagnosis delayed leads to death," said Assemblyman Pedro Nava, a Democrat from Santa Barbara. At issue is an early December decision by the Schwarzenegger administration to stop providing free breast cancer screening for those younger than 50 and to freeze new enrollments for six months starting in the new year. The changes inject a "cruel level of confusion," Nava said, for poor women seeking breast exams in the Every Woman Counts program, which served 311,000 in the 2008-09 fiscal year. "This is unacceptable," a bipartisan congressional group wrote to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this month. Eliminating free screenings, they warned, was "ultimately placing more women at risk of dying from breast cancer." About 1.2 million women are eligible for the program, advocates say, though far fewer receive the free mammograms. Single women earning up to $21,600 per year can sign up. The income limit for a woman in a family of four is $44,100. The new rules are being written fewer than two months after a federal task force released a controversial opinion recommending that most women wait until age 50 to receive routine mammograms, and then get them once every two years. Administration officials said the changes to Every Woman Counts have nothing to do with those guidelines. The hot-button issue of curtailing free mammograms for the poor has resonated from Sacramento to Washington. The 21 California members of Congress decried the cutbacks of the partly federally funded $61 million program as "penny unwise and pound foolish." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Teresa Heinz Kerry Fighting Breast Cancer - Pittsburgh Channel Posted: 22 Dec 2009 11:03 PM PST Pittsburgh Native Wants Younger Women To Get MammogramsPOSTED: 2:09 am EST December 23, 2009 BOSTON -- Teresa Heinz said she is being treated for breast cancer discovered through mammography and argues that younger women should continue undergoing the tests despite a federal panel's recent recommendation to reduce their frequency.Video - President Barack Obama's administration later backed off the recommendation amid criticism from many medical and women's groups.It said the government's policies "remain unchanged."Kerry helped launch Obama on the national political stage by giving the then-Illinois senator the keynote speaking role at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.Heinz -- the widow of Sen. John Heinz, heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune -- said she found out in late September that she had cancer in her left breast after having her annual mammogram.In early October, she underwent lumpectomies on both breasts at a Washington hospital after doctors also discovered what they thought was a benign growth on her right breast. That diagnosis was initially confirmed in postoperative pathology, but two other doctors later found it to be malignant.In November, Heinz had another pair of lumpectomies performed at Massachusetts General Hospital.Doctors also inserted titanium clips in the tissue of both breasts during the operations, and next month she will receive five days of targeted radiation aimed at improving her odds of a successful treatment to 95 percent.Heinz said she is undecided about follow-up medicinal treatments that could raise her survival odds to 99 percent, given her age and the potential side effects.Her surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital was the one she recommended to Elizabeth Edwards, who found out she had breast cancer just as her husband, former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., was concluding his stint as Kerry's vice presidential running mate.Heinz said she has not spoken with Elizabeth Edwards about her own cancer bout.
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| "Breast cancer is not one disease but collection of diseases" - Newstrack India Posted: 24 Dec 2009 01:46 AM PST
Washington, Dec 24 (ANI): Scientists from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have found that breast cancer is not one disease but a collection of several diseases. They cracked the genetic code of breast cancer and uncovered genomic rearrangements, which involved reshuffling and reorganisation of the genome and include deletions, duplications and novel juxtaposition of DNA sequences.
"We have looked at the level of the DNA sequence at just how splintered and reorganised the genome is in many breast cancers. We were, frankly, astounded at the number and complexity of rearrangements in some cancers," said Professor Mike Stratton of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "Just as important, the genomes were different from each other, with multiple distinctive patterns of rearrangement observed, supporting the view that breast cancer is not one, but several diseases," he added. During the study, the team used next-generation DNA sequencing to produce maps of genome rearrangements in 24 breast cancer samples, which were chosen to include the major subtypes of breast cancer and also included examples of breast cancers arising in BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer families. One breast cancer showed just a single genomic rearrangement - while others showed more than 200. The study provided insights into how the genetic code is disrupted in some cancers and also the way broken bits of DNA are "glued" back together in cancer cells. "It looks as though some breast cancers have a defect in the machinery that maintains and repairs DNA and this defect is resulting in large numbers of these abnormalities," said Dr Andy Futreal of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "At the moment we do not know what the defect is or the abnormal gene underlying it, but we are seeing the result of its malfunction in the hideously untidy state of these genomes. Identifying the underlying mutated cause will be central to working out how some breast cancers develop," Futreal added. (ANI) Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| John Kerry's Wife Teresa Heinz Reveals Breast Cancer Battle - Daily Oklahoman Posted: 23 Dec 2009 05:39 PM PST Heinz wrote in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial titled "Get that Mammogram," "I was diagnosed and treated for stage one cancer (two different types) in both breasts. The cancer was detected at an early stage thanks to a mammogram and the work of a remarkable physician who insisted on investigating beyond what the mammogram could show. I have had two operations and my prognosis for a full recovery is good." Heinz, 71, urges women to make regular mammograms a priority and said that her illness has "reminded me to slow down, cherish family and friends, and deepen my sense of life as a gift to be unwrapped each day with newfound joy and hope." Related stories: A New Leo & Cate: Countdown to the Election! Stars Rock the Vote!Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Alaina Reed Hall Dies Of Breast Cancer - E Canada Now Posted: 22 Dec 2009 05:59 AM PST Alaina Reed-Amini died Dec. 17 of breast cancer at the age of 63 years, according to her agent Billy Laurence. Alaina Reed-Amini also known under the name Alaina Reed Hall succumbed to the disease in a clinic in Santa Monica after having struggled for two years against cancer, according to Billy Lawrence. Born in 1946 in Ohio, Reed-Amini had joined "Sesame Street" in 1976. She had played on stage on Broadway in the musicals "Chicago" and "Hair." She participated in the television series "ER," "NYPD Blue" and "Ally McBeal".  Alaina Reed Hall Dies Of Breast Cancer
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