The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin, in the 40s or the 50s.

Quitting smoking isn't easy. But the American Cancer Society reports smokers who kick the habit won't have to wait long to feel those health benefits.

First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.

The task force first came together in 1984 and is the "leading independent panel of private-sector experts in prevention and primary care," according to its

The recommendations from the task force have left women confused about whose advice to follow.

Controversial new guidlines give way to a possible new way to detect breast cancer without the use of mammograms.

A member of the panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion is defending the task force's report.

With her statement, Sebelius waded into the controversy over Monday's announcement by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that women in their 40s should

Federal policy on who should get breast cancer screening has not changed, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday.

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Picoplatin is an experimental chemotherapy drug that is intended to work on patients whose tumors are resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy drugs.

For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out

Experts expect the task force revisions to be hotly debated, and to cause confusion for women and their doctors.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak was first reported at a boys camp in Sullivan County, N.Y.

In select cases, radiation therapy can be used a second time in the same patient.