1. Doctors now routinely use super-sensitive blood and urine tests to screen women suffering from any lower abdominal pain. 2. But the hospital involved says it would be impossible to screen every woman for a problem that only occurs once in every fifty thousand births. 3. Also among Hispanics, more women are being screened for breast and cervical cancer, fewer infant deaths are reported and fewer people are smoking cigarettes. 4. Aetna last year started a program to screen pregnant women in the first trimester to find high risk pregnancies, Cryer says. 5. But many doctors still recommend screening younger women, citing potential problems with previous studies. 6. But we hope that it will really motivate health care providers, and that women will be screened at many of their visits. 7. D. STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN HAIR COULD SIGNAL BREAST CANCER Hair-sample tests could one day be used to screen women for breast cancer. 8. In the San Fernando Valley, the Low-Cost Cancer Screening Project strives to screen low-income women. 9. Last month, an independent panel of experts at the National Cancer Institute agreed and said it could no longer make a recommendation about whether women should be screened. 10. Officials at M.D. Anderson Cancer Network-Tarrant County, also a site for the tamoxifen study, will begin screening post-menopausal women this month. |