How Is It Possible That Mammograms Don’t Actually Save Lives?
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For every life saved by mammography, as many as two to ten women are overdiagnosed and unnecessarily turned into breast cancer…
For every life saved by mammography, as many as two to ten women are overdiagnosed and unnecessarily turned into breast cancer…
Wearable devices that track our health may do more harm than good -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The suspension of routine breast cancer screening during covid-19 offers an opportunity to reconsider criticisms of the…
Several studies led by Vinay Prasad, M.D., M.P.H., are cited in a story examining the “hype vs. reality” in the cancer industry.
Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A prominent oncologist urges continuous testing of everyone from birth onward with implanted devices that detect cancerous…
Our aggressive, expensive approach to cancer is doing more harm than good. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
This new paper has generated a lot of headlines (Science news writeup here). It reports work on the long-sought “liquid biopsy…
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Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don…
Another major study raises questions about the efficacy of mammography. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Since 2012, five collaborative efforts to quantify the benefits and harms of breast screening have been published. These are…
Recently, bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, MSc, of the University of Pennsylvania, stirred up some controversy by…
The following is co-authored by Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt. It originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2015, The New…
You could get a very sore neck watching all the claims and counter-claims about mammography zing back and forth. It’s like a…
Interview with Nancy L. Keating, MD, MPH, author of A Systematic Assessment of Benefits and Risks to Guide Breast Cancer…
Act I: An ounce of “prevention.” “Prevention is better than cure.” Aphorisms like this go back a long way. And most of our…
There has been a lot back and forth over the mammography study in the BMJ. Excellent or flawed? The beginning of the end of…
There has been a lot back and forth over the mammography study in the BMJ. Excellent or flawed? The beginning of the end of…
Annual screening for prostate cancer may not be required in many elderly men, whereas routine screening for breast cancer…
D'Oh: For some time now, radiologists have been using computers to double check their mammogram readings, thinking that will…
Questioning the Conventional Wisdom: The Cochrane Group, a very good source of unbiased evidence based medicine, says that…