HSI – The Health Sciences Institute. UK Edition 19th December 2011
We’ve written to you many times in the past about mammograms. Despite the fact that this breast cancer screening procedure is painful and risky the mainstream still chooses to cling to it like it’s a long lost child.
In recent years, mounting evidence has [...]

September 16, 2011
by Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor
The California State Legislature passed a bill last Friday requiring doctors to inform women if they have dense breasts after a mammogram, making California the second state this summer and the third state so far to have passed a so-called breast density law.
The bill, SB 791, [...]

By SHEILA V KUMAR – Associated Press | AP – Fri, Sep 16, 2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It took seven years of annual mammograms and a cancer diagnosis for Amy Colton to learn something her doctors had realized from the beginning: Her breast tissue is so dense that it could have masked tumors on earlier [...]

Thursday, July 28, 2011 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology, which analyzes mammography images and marks suspicious areas for radiologists to review, has been widely hyped and pushed on women as a way to insure invasive breast cancer is spotted on mammograms. And it has grown into a huge industry, adding millions [...]

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JAMA. 2005 Mar 9;293(10):1245-56.
Elmore JG, Armstrong K, Lehman CD, Fletcher SW.
Source
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA. jelmore@u.washington.edu
Abstract
CONTEXT:
Breast cancer screening in community practices may be different from that in randomized controlled trials. New screening modalities are becoming available.
OBJECTIVES:
To review breast cancer screening, especially in the community and to examine [...]

By Madison Park, CNN
May 2, 2011 7:39 a.m. EDT
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CNN) — The use of mammograms has dipped since a medical task force made controversial recommendations that women in their 40s may not need to get breast cancer screenings every year, according to one [...]

By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: August 24, 2010
New York Times
When Dr. Deborah Rhodes orders a diagnostic test that involves radiation, she consults a chart in her office that lists the amount of radiation exposure from each test. She considers the patient’s total past exposure, and then carefully weighs the risks and benefits of each test and [...]

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06 May 2010
Mammograms detect few breast cancers in women younger than age 40 and often lead to more tests and unwarranted anxiety because of false positives, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the [...]

Source:
Caroline McNeil
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
URL: Article URL
04 May 2010
Screening mammograms in women under age 40 result in high rates of callbacks and additional imaging tests but low rates of cancer detection, according to a study published online May 3 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Many studies have [...]