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A pink ribbon is seen as a symbol of breast cancer awareness. ...

(AFP/Keystone/File) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:52:21 GMT

(AFP/Keystone/File) - A pink ribbon is seen as a symbol of breast cancer awareness. Three-quarters of US women disagree with a high-level panel's recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening and even more plan to ignore the guidelines, a poll showed Tuesday.(AFP/Keystone/File/Edi Engeler)

Nancy Brinker, founding chair of the Susan G. Komen for the ...

(AP) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:16:14 GMT

(AP) - Nancy Brinker, founding chair of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, addresses the controversy over recent federal breast cancer screening recommendations, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Nancy Brinker, founding chair of the Susan G. Komen for the ...

(AP) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:16:10 GMT

Nancy Brinker, founding chair of the Susan G. Komen for the ...

(AP) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:15:32 GMT

Nancy Brinker, founding chair of the Susan G. Komen for the ...

(AP) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:15:04 GMT

Nancy Brinker, founding chair of the Susan G. Komen for the ...

(AP) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:14:46 GMT

The San Antonio Silver Stars' Helen Darling undergoes a ...

(AFP/NBAE / Getty Images/File) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:32:49 GMT

(AFP/NBAE / Getty Images/File) - The San Antonio Silver Stars' Helen Darling undergoes a mammogram as part of an awareness-raising event in San Antonio, Texas. Days after controversy erupted over new breast cancer screening guidelines, a US health group has said women should wait longer to get their first cervical cancer test.(AFP/NBAE / Getty Images/File/D. Clarke Evans)

Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., center, gestures during a news conference ...

(AP) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:56:11 GMT

(AP) - Reps. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., center, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, to discuss the new mammogram guidelines. From left are, Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Myrick, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. and Rep. Jean Schmidt, R- Ohio. Myrick is a breast cancer is a breast cancer survivor. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A pink ribbon is seen as a symbol of breast cancer awareness. ...

(AFP/Keystone/File) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:22:54 GMT

(AFP/Keystone/File) - A pink ribbon is seen as a symbol of breast cancer awareness. The US government Wednesday distanced itself from a report that has triggered an outcry here after it recommended that women under 50 should not be routinely screened for breast cancer.(AFP/Keystone/File/Edi Engeler)

Bloomingdale's department store in New York lights up pink ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:41:33 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Bloomingdale's department store in New York lights up pink to raise cancer awareness. Doctors and experts are in uproar over new recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening, warning more women will die from the disease which already claims some 40,000 lives each year.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Lovekin)

US First Lady Michelle Obama (left) and Jill Biden, wife of ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:41:33 GMT

(AFP/File) - US First Lady Michelle Obama (left) and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, take part in a Breast Cancer Awareness Event at the White House in October. Doctors and experts are in uproar over new recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening, warning more women will die from the disease which already claims some 40,000 lives each year.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)

A large pink ribbon hangs from the North Portico of the White ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:41:33 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A large pink ribbon hangs from the North Portico of the White House in October to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Doctors and experts are in uproar over new recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening, warning more women will die from the disease which already claims some 40,000 lives each year.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)

FILE - In this July 24, 2007 file photo, Peter Criss, founding ...

(AP) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:39:53 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this July 24, 2007 file photo, Peter Criss, founding member of rock group KISS, smiles during an autograph signing for the release of his solo album entitled 'ONE FOR ALL' in New York. Lying in bed one night in 2007, Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast. The former Kiss drummer went to the doctor, underwent some tests and a surgical procedure to remove the lump. A week later, the doctor called. It was breast cancer. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada, File)

Graphic shows the rise of male breast cancer rates since ...

(AP) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:54:26 GMT

(AP) - Graphic shows the rise of male breast cancer rates since

Bloomingdale's department store in New York lights up pink ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:45:42 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Bloomingdale's department store in New York lights up pink to celebrate cancer awareness. Doctors and experts are in uproar over new recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening, warning more women will die from the disease which already claims some 40,000 lives each year.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Stephen Lovekin)

US First Lady Michelle Obama (L) and Jill Biden (R), wife of ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:45:42 GMT

(AFP/File) - US First Lady Michelle Obama (L) and Jill Biden (R), wife of Vice President Joe Biden, take part in a Breast Cancer Awareness Event at the White House in October. Doctors and experts are in uproar over new recommendations to raise the age of breast cancer screening, warning more women will die from the disease which already claims some 40,000 lives each year.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)

In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays ...

(AP) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:57 GMT

(AP) - In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays with her children, 3-year-old twins Miranda, left, and Javier, right, and 18-month-old twins Ava, center, and Julian in Durham, N.C. Leonor developed heart failure suddenly when she had to be treated for breast cancer while pregnant with her second set of twins. The HeartMate II heart pump has kept Leonor alive for a year without the need of a heart transplant. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)

In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays ...

(AP) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:48 GMT

(AP) - In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays with her children, 18-month-old twins Ava and Julian, left, and 3-year-old twins Miranda, right, and Javier in Durham, N.C. Leonor developed heart failure suddenly when she had to be treated for breast cancer while pregnant with her second set of twins. The HeartMate II heart pump has kept Leonor alive for a year without the need of a heart transplant. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)

In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays ...

(AP) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:27 GMT

(AP) - In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays with her children,18-month-old twins Julian, left, and Ava, and 3-year-old twins Miranda, right, and Javier in Durham, N.C. Leonor developed heart failure suddenly when she had to be treated for breast cancer while pregnant with her second set of twins. The HeartMate II heart pump, which is seen around her waist, has kept Leonor alive for a year without the need of a heart transplant. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)

In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays ...

(AP) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:03 GMT

(AP) - In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays with her children, 3-year-old twins Miranda and Javier, right, and 18-month-old twins Julian and Ava, left, in Durham, N.C. Leonor developed heart failure suddenly when she had to be treated for breast cancer while pregnant with her second set of twins. The HeartMate II heart pump has kept Leonor alive for a year without the need of a heart transplant. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)

In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, who ...

(AP) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:44:50 GMT

(AP) - In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, who developed heart failure suddenly when she had to be treated for breast cancer while pregnant with her second set of twins, poses at her home in Durham, N.C. The HeartMate II heart pump, which is seen around her waist, has kept Leonor alive for a year without the need of a heart transplant. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)

In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays ...

(AP) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:44:18 GMT

(AP) - In this Nov. 13, 2009 photo, Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays with her children, 3-year-old twins Miranda, left, and Javier, right, and 18-month-old twins Ava and Julian, center, in Durham, N.C. Leonor developed heart failure suddenly when she had to be treated for breast cancer while pregnant with her second set of twins. The HeartMate II left ventricular heart pump has kept Leonor alive for a year without the need of a heart transplant. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)

Vasiliki Kostoula, a Greek breast cancer patient, prepares for ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:06:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Vasiliki Kostoula, a Greek breast cancer patient, prepares for a mammography examination in an Athens hospital October 29, 2008. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

This undated booking mug made available by the McLennan County ...

(AP) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:44:52 GMT

(AP) - This undated booking mug made available by the McLennan County Sheriff shows, Trista Joy Lathern, 24, who authorities say lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged. McLennan County sheriff's investigator James Pack says in court records that Lathern shaved her head to look like a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy. (AP Photo/McLennan County Sherriff via Waco Tribune)

Participants pose during an attempt to break the Guinness World ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:53:04 GMT

(Reuters) - Participants pose during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for World's Largest Bikini Parade to raise awareness for breast cancer, in Johannesburg, November 7, 2009. Picture taken November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (SOUTH AFRICA HEALTH SOCIETY FASHION)

Participants attempt to break the Guinness World Record for ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:48:43 GMT

(Reuters) - Participants attempt to break the Guinness World Record for World's Largest Bikini Parade to raise awareness for breast cancer, in Johannesburg, November 7, 2009. Picture taken November 7, 2009. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko (SOUTH AFRICA HEALTH SOCIETY FASHION)

Participants attempt to break the Guinness World Record for ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:46:31 GMT

Carly Fiorina, the former chairwoman and chief executive officer ...

(AP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:42:59 GMT

(AP) - Carly Fiorina, the former chairwoman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co., who recently completed breast cancer treatment, comments on her hair, before announcing her run for the California Senate seat now held by Democrat Barbara Boxer during a tour of the Earth Friendly Products facility in Garden Grove, Calif. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

COMMERCIAL IMAGE: In this photograph taken by AP Images for ...

(AP) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:36:53 GMT

(AP) - COMMERCIAL IMAGE: In this photograph taken by AP Images for CNN Heroes, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Barbara Jordan (left) and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez (right) present Top Ten CNN Hero Andrea Ivory (center) with a proclamation for her work bringing early breast cancer detection to the doorsteps of uninsured women at a rally at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, November 4th. Ivory, chosen from 9,000 submissions worldwide, encouraged the community to vote for her as CNN Hero of the Year. (Jeffrey Boan/AP Images/CNN Heroes)

Fact file on the most common cancer to strike women. Breast ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:32:08 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Fact file on the most common cancer to strike women. Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned.(AFP/Graphic)

File photo shows a woman undergoing a mammogram scan at a hospital ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:32:08 GMT

(AFP/File) - File photo shows a woman undergoing a mammogram scan at a hospital in Paris. Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)

Graphic fact file on the most common cancer to strike women. ...

(AFP/Graphic) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:22:57 GMT

(AFP/Graphic) - Graphic fact file on the most common cancer to strike women. Breast cancer is becoming an increasingly global epidemic, plaguing more people in developing countries where mortality rates are higher and many lack access to care, US researchers warned.(AFP/Graphic)

More than 600 Upper Valley JVS students and staff take part ...

(AP) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:14:17 GMT

(AP) - More than 600 Upper Valley JVS students and staff take part in a human Pink Ribbon Project at the Piqua, Ohio campus on Friday, October 30, 2009. As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month students donated money to the Relay for Life to become part the human ribbon. The project was done, in part, to honor retiring Upper Valley JVS teacher Connie Hobbs who is currently fighting breast cancer. (AP Photo/The Piqua Daily Call, Mike Ullery)

Team Schein Members from Henry Schein celebrate the Company's ...

(AP) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:07:42 GMT

(AP) - Team Schein Members from Henry Schein celebrate the Company's Think Pink program which donates a portion of sales on pink products to help find a cure for Breast Cancer. (PRNewsFoto/Henry Schein, Inc)

In this photo provided by StarPix, actress Elizabeth Hurley ...

(AP) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:40:43 GMT

(AP) - In this photo provided by StarPix, actress Elizabeth Hurley receives the Humanitarian Award from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Dave Allocca, StarPix)

In this photo provided by StarPix, actress Elizabeth Hurley ...

(AP) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:40:23 GMT

(AP) - In this photo provided by StarPix, actress Elizabeth Hurley poses before she receives the Humanitarian Award from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Dave Allocca, StarPix)

Ford Motor Co. President of the Americas Mark Fields stands ...

(AP) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:32:19 GMT

(AP) - Ford Motor Co. President of the Americas Mark Fields stands next to a Ford Fusion in front of a pink lit Ford headquarters Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 in Dearborn. Ford Warriors in Pink is a campaign designed to recognize the strength and courage it takes to deal with the everyday challenges of fighting breast cancer. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Ford Motor Co. President of the Americas Mark Fields meets with ...

(AP) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:01:37 GMT

(AP) - Ford Motor Co. President of the Americas Mark Fields meets with breast cancer survivors Claudia Goodreau, left, and Judy Anastos at a pink lit Ford headquarters Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 in Dearborn. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)