gynecological cancers

A woman's health history and tolerance for different kinds of risks should have a legitimate role in determining the timing of when she starts and stops getting screening mammograms, some leading doctors say.

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Why Is Mammogram Advice Still Such A Tangle? Ask Your Doctor

4:43pm October 21, 2015

by Patti Neighmond

Leading physicians' groups don't agree about when and how often women with an average risk for breast cancer should get a screening mammogram. But your history can help guide you and your doctor.

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Kenyan women visit an outreach team from Marie Stopes, a reproductive health organization that can screen for and treat cervical cancer.

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It's Time To Pay Attention To 'Below-The-Belt' Cancers

9:29am June 18, 2015

by Marc Silver

That's another way of referring to gynecological cancers, which strike more than 1 million women a year — and are on the rise in the developing world.