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““Misfearing” — Culture, Identity, and Our Perceptions of Health Risks,” by Lisa Rosenbaum MD, New England Journal of Medicine. “Misfearing,” the term Cass Sunstein uses to describe the human tendency to fear instinctively rather than factually, is not unique to women’s perceived health threats. Decades of research on risk perception have revealed the many factors . . . → Read More: “Misfearing” — Culture, Identity, and Our Perceptions of Health Risks
“Don’t slam Canada for mammogram study.” By H. Gilbert Welch, CNN. (CNN) — We all like to think medical care is about science, but too often it’s about professional interests. Last week, a 25-year follow-up of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study was published — one of the eight major randomized trials of screening mammography. . . . → Read More: Don’t slam Canada for mammogram study 
Clamoring over screening protocols has started anew with the release of a Canadian study confirming earlier results that annual mammography screening did not reduce breast cancer deaths. Instead, it contributed to the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that would not have been life threatening in the first place. We’ve heard it all before, with varying . . . → Read More: Addition Of Screening Mammograms Adds No Benefit, But Causes Harm
“The Canadian Screening Study Ignites A New Round In The Mammography Wars,” by David Gorski, Science-Based Medicine. The Twenty five year follow-up for breast cancer incidence and mortality of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS), a randomized screening trial, found that mammograms didn’t reduce breast cancer mortality compared to routine care. Gorski gives background . . . → Read More: The Canadian National Breast Screening Study Ignites A New Round In The Mammography Wars
“Misfearing Breast Cancer: More evidence that routine mammograms make healthy people sick.” by Christie Aschwanden, Slate. What’s the No. 1 killer of women? It’s a question that practitioners asked every new patient at a clinic where physician Lisa Rosenbaum once worked, and she hasn’t forgotten the answer given to her by one middle-aged woman with . . . → Read More: Misfearing Breast Cancer 
Hazel Grace Lancaster, sixteen, has thyroid cancer. The drug Phalanxifor is “miraculously” holding back the tumors that spread to her lungs, and the cylindrical green oxygen tank she hauls behind her is helping to keep her lungs operational. But Hazel’s life has narrowed. She’s been out of school for three years. Convinced that her daughter . . . → Read More: Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
“Why I Never Got a Mammogram”, by Marie Myung-Ol Lee, The New York Times. I HAVE never had a mammogram. I’m almost 50 — nearly a decade into the age when the screening is recommended by the American Cancer Society. I’m college educated, adequately insured. And I am the bane of my . . . → Read More: Why I Never Got a Mammogram
Read in PDF » One of the largest studies of screening mammography, the Canadian National Breast Screening Trial, is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that compared breast cancer incidence and mortality for women ages 40 to 59 who did, or did not, have an annual screening mammogram. The study followed nearly 90,000 women . . . → Read More: Research Brief: Canadian National Breast Screening Study
“Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms.” By Gina Kolata, The New York Times. One of the largest and most meticulous studies of mammography ever done, involving 90,000 women and lasting a quarter-century, has added powerful new doubts about the value of the screening test for women of any age. It found that the . . . → Read More: Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms 
Many of us have escaped into this type of jocular dismissal when someone we love says, “This will probably be my last… (birthday, Christmas, anniversary).” But what is it we are really saying with a statement like, “Aww, you’ll outlive all of us!” The feeling underlying the comment may be, “I don’t like the thought . . . → Read More: Aww, Grampa… …you’ll outlive all of us! |
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