To Screen is Human
Smack in the midst of October-is-breast-cancer-awareness-month, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a provocative article with a low-key title: “Rethinking Screening for Breast...
View ArticleGetting the Math on Mammograms
The latest news’ focus on the breast cancer screening madness is about money. So let’s do the math: First, for argument’s sake, let’s say the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is right – that to save...
View ArticleAnother Take on Mammography
In my latest piece, Mammography: a Not-So-Fatalistic View, I outline reasons why the recent task force findings on mammography don’t hold. Three key issues have escaped the headlines: 1. The expert...
View ArticleA Bit More on False Positives, Dec 2009, Part 1
The question of false positives in breast cancer screening – why and how these happen, how often these occur, and how much these cost, in physical, psychological and financial terms – remains a puzzle....
View ArticleLooking Ahead on Breast Cancer Screening
My plan is to move on after this post – too much is happening in medicine to dwell on the mammography issue longer, or at least for the time being. So I’ll close on the 2009 screening controversy with...
View Article3 Differences between Prostate and Breast Cancer Screening
Days ago, the USPSTF issued a new draft for its recommendations on routine PSA measurements in asymptomatic men. The panel’s report is published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The main findings...
View ArticleMammograms Could Save More Lives Than You Might Think
I’m wondering is how to bring mainstream health journalists and women who are, lately, choosing not to have mammograms, to their senses about a persuasive but flawed argument put forth by a Dartmouth...
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More on Mammography, Breast Cancer, Misleading Arguments, Emotion and Women’s...
It’s a holiday week. But when this morning’s paper delivered yet another op-ed by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, citing (and breaking an embargo on) yet another, misleading and manipulative two-author analysis...
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