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 of that time is [...]

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 cracked up to [...]

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 of screening is in terms of [...]

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 previously been recognised, even [...]

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 multiple [...]

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 detection [...]

Understanding the Role of DITI* in Breast Screening

The benefits of DITI do vary between age and risk groups.
With the pre mammogram age group (under 50) the benefits of screening to detect any findings or changes that justify additional testing or closer monitoring are simple. With any positive DITI findings in this younger age group, any mammogram and ultrasound sensitivity and specificity will be increased with the [...]

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 earlier [...]

NHS Breast Screen Program Does Not Give Women Informed Choice, It Misinforms The Public, UK

Academic Journal
Main Category: Breast Cancer
Article Date: 04 Sep 2011 – 9:00 PDT
Peter C Gøtzsche and Karsten Juhl Jørgensen of the Nordic Cochrane Centre urge for “more honesty” from the NHS BSP (Breast Screening Programme). They believe that harm has been understated, and that information issued to the public has in general been unaffected by “repeated [...]

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