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, [...]

The New England Journal  of  Medicine
©Copyright, 1998, by the Massachusetts Medical Society
VOLUME  338  A PRIL  16, 1998  NUMBER 16
J OANN  G. E LMORE , M.D., M.P.H., M ARY  B. B ARTON , M.D., M.P.P., V ICTORIA  M. M OCERI , P H .C., S ARAH  P OLK , B.A., P HILIP  J. A RENA , [...]

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 [...]

Main Category: Breast Cancer
Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance
Article Date: 14 Jan 2010 – 4:00 PST
 Under pressure from doctors, some women’s groups and imaging equipment makers, lawmakers are likely to require coverage for more mammograms in health reform legislation than is currently recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Wall Street [...]

Mammograms & Thermography — Panel’s recommendation has merit.
The two techniques look at different things. Thermography looks at abnormal blood vessel formation, which is an early event in the life of a cancer. Mammography looks at masses (1 centimeter or larger) and calcification patterns, which are later developments.
Each has reliability in the recent literature of around [...]

The Mammography Debate, Part II
Written by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
Cancer Decisions

“Barbara Brenner of the San Francisco-based group, Breast Cancer Action (BCA), is one of the rare leaders who has come out in support of the USPSTF recommendations. She says that the new recommendations would simply bring the US in line with most European countries, and [...]

The New England Journal of Medicine published this article entitled “On Mammography – More Agreement Than Disagressment. ”
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