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“Have breast cancer campaigns been beneficial?” by Al Jazeera, Washington, DC The pink ribbon has become a globally recognised symbol of the fight against breast cancer. And once again, October was deemed a month of awareness for a disease that claims the lives of tens of thousands of women worldwide each year. There is little . . . → Read More: Have breast cancer campaigns been beneficial?
“Patients’ Expectations of Screening and Preventive Treatments.” By Ben Hudson, Abby Zarifeh, Lorraine Young, J. Elisabeth Wells, Annals of Family Medicine An informed decision to accept a health care intervention requires an understanding of its likely benefit. This study assessed participants’ estimates of the benefit, as well as minimum acceptable benefit, of screening for breast . . . → Read More: Patients’ Expectations of Screening and Preventive Treatments 
Dr. Patricia Steeg Patricia S. Steeg, chief of the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute, argues in Nature [2012, 485, S58a] that most people with breast cancer die as a result of metastases (spread). Clinical trials, however, are only designed to evaluate a drug’s ability to shrink established tumors rather . . . → Read More: Research Brief — “The Right Trials”
“Cancer Screening Campaigns — Getting Past Uninformative Persuasion.” By Steven Woloshin, M.D., Lisa M. Schwartz, M.D., William C. Black, M.D., and Barnett S. Kramer, M.D., M.P.H., New England Journal of Medicine For nearly a century, public health organizations, professional associations, patient advocacy groups, academics, and clinicians largely viewed cancer screening as a simple, safe way . . . → Read More: Cancer Screening Campaigns — Getting Past Uninformative Persuasion 
Published in the Philadelphia Inquirer Komen Race for the Cure participants pitched pink tents and wacky signs in the Pennsylvania Convention Center this month. APRIL SAUL / Staff Photographer Every October, as surely as the leaves turn, Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s pink-ribbon celebration marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But when a . . . → Read More: Bringing on the pink
“The Breast Cancer Donor’s Dilemma: Time to Revolt?” By Ellen Leopold, Truthout Sixty years ago, the largest national health charities in the United States dominated the philanthropic playing field and were able to carve up the fundraising calendar year among themselves. Competing for their charitable dollars were what came to be called community chests. These . . . → Read More: The Breast Cancer Donor’s Dilemma: Time to Revolt?
“Sexy breast cancer campaigns anger many patients.” By Liz Szabo, USA Today Many breast cancer survivors say a crop of pink-ribbon campaigns have hit a new low — by sexualizing breast cancer. An online porn site this month has been using breast cancer to increase its Web traffic by offering to donate 1 cent for . . . → Read More: Sexy breast cancer campaigns anger many patients
“We really need to talk about breast cancer.” By Sian Claire Owen, iVillage UK When someone says the words ‘breast cancer’ to you, what do you think of? Is it pink ribbons and fun runs? Do you think that we’re talking about a disease that, thanks to research and early diagnosis, is on the verge . . . → Read More: We really need to talk about breast cancer 
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Times None of us can “prepare” ourselves for a disaster on the scale of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of March 11th, 2011 and the subsequent nuclear reactor failure. This would equate to imagining your current life – the streets where you walk, the neighborhoods where you . . . → Read More: Disaster Drill
“Breast cancer screening causes more damage than previously thought.” By Sarah Bosely, The Guardian (U.K.) Breast cancer screening causes more harm than has previously been recognised, even though it saves lives, according to an independent review set up following years of scientific controversy surrounding the NHS programme. Around 1,300 lives are saved every year by . . . → Read More: Breast cancer screening causes more damage than previously thought |
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