Researchers from Group Health Research Institute in Seattle contributed to two new studies that identify two types of women who may benefit from regular mammograms in their 40s: those who have very dense breasts, and those who have a close relative — a mother, sister or daughter — who had breast cancer.
Overdiagnosis occurs when routine breast cancer screening discovers a cancer that would have never caused symptoms in a woman’s lifetime. When this is the case, a woman might undergo the ordeal of surgery, radiation treatments and chemotherapy for a tumor that she otherwise would have never known she had.
On Saturday, March 17, local health organizations are hosting a free mammogram screening event in southeast Seattle focusing on African American women.The event is this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Columbia Health Center, 4400 37th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118.
Facing a storm of criticism form women’s groups and abortion-rights supporters, the Susan G. Komen for a Cure foundation announced it would reverse its decision to cut its funding to Planned Parenthood.
The breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen For the Cure is pulling about $700,000 in breast cancer screening and service grants from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.Komen’s reason: a new policy forbidding grants to organizations under official investigation. Planned Parenthood is the subject of an inquiry launched by a GOP congressman.
Julie Grabow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, recently prescribed an exciting new therapy for a 60-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer — Afinitor made by Novartis. There was a catch, though. Novartis is charging $10,000 per month for the drug
After more than a year of deliberations, the FDA has revoked approval of the biotech blockbuster Avastin, a medicine that chokes off the blood supply to various cancer cells, as a treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
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Tutta Bella Neopolitan Pizzerias will join with three other Washington State pizzerias to raise money for the Seattle-based Karen Mullen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Mammography done yearly or every two years to detect new or recurrent tumors after surgery appears to prolong the lives of breast cancer survivors, according to a large new evidence review.
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Talks at Gilda’s Club Seattle in January: “Reducing your cancer risk”, “Ask the Doctor: Gynecologic Cancers” and “Breast Cancer Screening: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All”.
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