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		<title>Cancer screening tests right to the grave</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2010/10/13/cancer-screening-right-to-the-grave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[breast cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tests most commonly given to advanced cancer patients were predicable. Mammography was number one, received by nearly 9% of the women with advanced cancer, with the Pap test running a close second at nearly 6%. As for the men, 15 % got a PSA test and nearly 2% of all got a colonoscopy. As for the age-matched people without cancer in the control group, 2-3 times more of them had one of the cancer screening tests.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=6473&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best place for cancer death&#8212;home</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2010/09/17/best-place-for-cancer-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bereavement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is the best place to die of cancer---home or hospital? This crucial question was answered in an unusual study that looked not only at the quality of remaining life for the dying cancer patients but also the impact on their loved ones.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=6304&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overtreatment of thyroid cancer</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2010/06/11/thyroid-cancer-overtreatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[papillary thyroid cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thyroid cancer incidence has tripled since the 1970s. Most of the increase is attributed to the introduction of diagnostic ultrasound and fine-needle aspiration biopsies. Use of these two procedures escalated once ultrasound machines, initially found only at hospitals, became increasingly available in doctors’ offices. Numerous autopsy studies show cancer is present in the thyroids of most people who died from other causes. Consequently, some researchers suspect that diagnosing thyroid cancer at the earliest stage confers no advantage. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=5502&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prostate cancer treatment misused</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/12/14/4023/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot flashes, weakness, fatigue, cognitive impairment, and depression are the “substantial unintended side effects” of ADT, aka chemical castration. The VA study is not the first to link ADT to an increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but it shines a light on unproven uses of this drastic therapy. The shows that ADT is given as the primary treatment for men with local and regional prostate cancer who have no symptoms of the disease, as well as symptomless men whose post-treatment PSA test show rising levels. The rise in the use of ADT can be chalked up to the fact that the PSA screening test was introduced in the late 1980s. This <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=4023&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Pap test guidelines</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/11/21/new-pap-test-guidelines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I doubt many women have had the pros and cons of the Pap test explained to them by their doctors.  Nor are we told how rare cervical cancer is.  We have been lead to believe that Pap testing is reason why cervical cancer is rare, but in fact the cervical cancer death rate was going down years before the Pap test was given to a significant portion of the femal population.  See my 2007 article on the topic.  And here’s the National Cancer Institute’s <a href="http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/screening/cervical/HealthProfessional/page11">cautions about the Pap test</a> that have been on its Web site for several years. I think women deserve an apology from the ACS and ACOG<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&amp;blog=7088906&amp;post=3349&amp;subd=medconsumers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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