Article Date: 11 Jun 2013 – 9:00 PDT Posted at: MedicalNewsToday.com A new UK study suggests screening for breast cancer does not reduce deaths from the disease. The study, which looked at nearly 40 years of breast screening, adds to the controversy surrounding whether it is screening or improvement in treatment that accounts for the […]
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Mammograms Don’t Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths
From The Daily Health. 12th June 2013 We’ve been saying this for a while now: Mammograms simply don’t crack it when it comes to saving lives. In fact, studies have shown that for every 2,000 women over the age of 50 who are screened every year for a decade with this archaic and painful screening […]
NYTimes.com – Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer
By PEGGY ORENSTEIN Published: April 25, 2013 NYtimes.com So when the radiologist found an odd, bicycle-spoke-like pattern on the film — not even a lump — and sent me for a biopsy, I wasn’t worried. After all, who got breast cancer at 35? It turns out I did. Recalling the fear, confusion, anger and grief […]
Cancer Survivor or Victim of Overdiagnosis?
The New York Times Articles By: H. Gilbert Welch Written: November 21, 2012 FOR decades women have been told that one of the most important things they can do to protect their health is to have regular mammograms. But over the past few years, it’s become increasingly clear that these screenings are not all they’re […]
Mammography: Are There Pros, or is It Just a Con?
By Johnnie Ham, MD, MBA Original Article at Mercola.com Many women are completely unaware that the science backing the use of mammograms is sketchy at best. As was revealed in a 2011 meta-analysis by the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, mammography breast cancer screening led to 30 percent overdiagnosis and overtreatment, which equates to an […]
Health Canada protects mammogram racket by criminalizing thermography for breast cancer detection
Tuesday, December 11, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer By Natural News (NaturalNews) The forces of evil are currently running wild in Canada, where the government-run healthcare machine and the mainstream media are currently engaged in a vicious assault on the safe and effective breast cancer screening tool known as thermography. A recent “investigative” […]
The Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening: An Independent Review
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 30 October 2012 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61611-0Cite or Link Using DOI The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review Original Text Independent UK Panel on Breast Cancer Screening† Summary Whether breast cancer screening does more harm than good has been debated extensively. The main questions are how large the benefit […]
Breast Cancer Screening Causes More Damage than Previously Thought
Around 4,000 women have unnecessary treatment for a disease that will never threaten their health, though tests should continue Sarah Boseley, health editor The Guardian, Monday 29 October 2012 Around 1,300 lives are saved by mammography, but many women have unnecessary breast cancer treatment. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Breast cancer screening causes more harm than has […]
Professors: Komen overstating benefits of mammograms (CNN News)
By Saundra Young, CNN Sr. Medical Producer updated 1:33 PM EDT, Tue August 7, 2012 Read complete article on CNN (CNN) — A national breast cancer charity is being accused of using misleading statistics to convince women to have mammograms, according to a paper published Thursday in the British Medical Journal. Susan G. Komen for […]
Cancer prevention on minds of Ontario CWL
Written by Erin Morawetz, The Catholic Register Wednesday, 25 July 2012 14:25 Ontario’s Catholic Women’s League has put its support behind infrared breast screening thermography while expressing opposition to youth indoor tanning. These resolutions were passed at the 65th annual Ontario provincial convention of the CWL, which took place in Kingston, Ont., July 9 to […]
When a Train is not a Boat, and a Row Boat is not a Luxury Liner
Why Mammography cannot be compared with breast thermography. Author: Dr. Hillary Smith I have recently seen the media go crazy with a study that was done at Bryn Mawr Hospital comparing mammography and thermography for breast cancer detection. The thermal images in the study failed to impress those conducting the study. And so we see […]
Rebuttle to No-Touch Study ~ Misleading Media About Thermography
The recent plethora of articles reporting a study published that compares a certain type of infrared imaging for breast cancer with mammography has been taken out of context and perspective by some journalists and by certain self interest groups within the medical profession. The ‘No touch breast scan’ product was tested alongside mammography for the […]
Mammograms: How The Mainstream Got It Wrong
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 […]
California Passes Breast Density Bill
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, […]
California Bill Aimed at Breast Cancer Worries Docs
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 […]
Widely used CAD mammography tool fails to find invasive breast cancer, causes needless tests and ...
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 […]
Screening for Breast Cancer
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 […]