Panel urges cancer patient mental screening
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Doctors treating cancer patients should try harder to help them deal with the emotional toll the disease exacts, an expert panel said on Tuesday.
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Top officials in the Bush administration and on Capitol Hill said yesterday that the federal government must move quickly to revamp the nation's system for identifying and caring for military personnel with the invisible wounds of mental illness.
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A new study suggests that screening smokers and former smokers for lung cancer doesn't save lives or prevent advanced disease and may lead to unneeded and harmful treatment.
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NEW YORK  - Wives and other caregivers of men with prostate cancer may be at risk of anxiety, fatigue and other symptoms that exact a toll on the quality of their lives, a study suggests.
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A mental health charity calls for a government inquiry into the link between cannabis and mental illness.
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A federal panel chooses a go-slow approach to investigating whether workers got cancer at the nuclear weapons facility
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A leading member of the GAA suggests that health screening for young people should be investigated.
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People with cancer should get more help with the financial costs of dealing with the condition, campaigners say.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental lung cancer screening test designed to look for precancerous genetic damage could help better identify patients at risk for the disease, while opening up the possibility for earlier diagnoses and preventive treatments, a new study suggests.
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A new study suggests that screening smokers and former smokers for lung cancer doesn't save lives or prevent advanced disease and may lead to unneeded and harmful treatment. But it's not the final word on CT scans.
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When a person is told he has an aggressive form of cancer, he might seek a second opinion if the doctor responds by telling him to drink plenty of fluids, take two aspirin, get a good night sleep and call the office in the morning.
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Actress Fran Drescher urged cancer screening tests be included as part of standard women's health care during an appearance at Lifetime Television's WomenRock! concert.
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There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of  the disease, a survey suggests.
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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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NEW YORK  - Professionally led support  groups may ease anxiety and depression in women who carry gene  mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancers, a new study  suggests.
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A panel recommended that doctors and patients be given stronger warnings about the dangers associated with the use of drug-coated stents.
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The financial pressures associated with cancer can have dire consequences for patients, a survey finds.