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“Pink Ribbons, Inc.” Screening and Panel Discussion for International Women’s Day on March 5th, 2013
Breast cancer campaigns are all around us. Everything from marathons to bake sales are regularly organized to raise money for breast cancer. More and more companies have ‘pink ribbon products’ – teddy bears, perfume, and bras to name very few – with sales that allegedly result in donations to breast cancer programs and charities. But . . . → Read More: “Pink Ribbons, Inc.” Screening and Panel Discussion for International Women’s Day on March 5th, 2013 
“Time lag to benefit after screening for breast and colorectal cancer: meta-analysis of survival data from the United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, and Denmark. By S.J. Lee and colleagues, British Medical Journal. Clinical practice guidelines recommend targeting breast and colorectal cancer screening to healthy older patients who have a substantial life expectancy. Cancer screening is . . . → Read More: Patients with life expectancy of less than 10 years derive little benefit from screening
“Breast Screening Costs High for Seniors.” By Nancy Walsh, MedPage today Costs associated with screening for breast cancer among older women remain high, with considerable geographic variation as well as some potentially undesirable implications for diagnosis, a retrospective study found. The annual cost to Medicare for breast cancer screening among women 66 and older was . . . → Read More: Breast Screening Costs High for Seniors
“Cancer Survivor or Victim of Diagnosis?” By H. Gilbert Welch, The New York Times 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 . . . → Read More: Cancer Survivor or Victim of Diagnosis?
“Reasons why doctors overtreat and overtest.” By Robert Centor MD, KevinMD.com The New York Times recently had an important and provocative piece, “Overtreatment Is Taking a Harmful Toll.” The title is a bit misleading. The article focuses more on overtesting. We test too much and we treat too much. The article, while mostly accurate, does . . . → Read More: Reasons why doctors overtreat and overtest
“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
“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
“New 3-D mammograms have benefits, risks.” By Liz Szabo, USA Today USA TODAY’s Liz Szabo asked screening experts to talk about the risks, limitations and potential benefits of a new screening method, the new 3-D mammogram. The technology, called tomosynthesis, provides three-dimensional images of the breast by using a technology similar to CT scans, or . . . → Read More: New 3-D mammograms have benefits, risks
“The new religion: screening at your parish church.” By Charles Warlow, British Medical Journal Unusually for me, I went to church. On a Monday. Not to ask forgiveness or to sing a hymn, or to be instructed from the pulpit, but to be screened. After all, if Liverpool Anglican Cathedral can be a . . . → Read More: The new religion: screening at your parish church |
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