Debunking The Vanishing Breast Cancer Myth
None of 42 experienced radiologists recalled having seen a single case of breast cancer vanish or regress without treatment.
writer, health care advocate, physician
None of 42 experienced radiologists recalled having seen a single case of breast cancer vanish or regress without treatment.
My worry for Grail is that a lot of people will get worked up upon finding genetic changes of unknown significance. Meanwhile, it might fail to detect cancer in people who really have it.
The overdiagnosis campaign reflects a lack of respect for women’s capacity to act rationally upon receiving an abnormal test result.
The series invites women and doctors to step out of their pro- or con- trenches, take a look at the modern screening landscape, scrutinize everything and re-assess all options.
Whether or not mammography is effective at detecting breast cancer early, these findings demonstrate the current benefit of early detection.
DCIS accounts for approximately 1 in 5 breast cancer-ish diagnoses in the United States. The practical problem with DCIS is that most oncologists, surgical and medical, will admit they’re not sure what to do about it.
If confirmed, this method of liquid biopsy would enable monitoring and genetic evaluation of pancreatic cancer from blood.
The authors’ definition of false positives and assumptions of overdiagnosis undermine calculations of mammography’s costs.
“You’ll be shocked when they finally figure out how to do early detection, how relatively inexpensive it will be, quickly,” Clinton said at an ovarian cancer charity event.
Automated whole breast ultrasound screening has the potential to improve breast cancer screening of women with dense breasts.
Getting checked, one way or another, has even been deemed cost-effective. The question for colorectal cancer, if you choose to be screened, is how: what’s the best method?
Radiologists who publish academic papers on breast imaging may be influenced by idiosyncrasies in training, what machines their practices own or hospitals happen to have purchased, anecdotal experiences and personal skills.
Too often, people undergo surgery for small, unlikely-to-be-harmful thyroid tumors. But thyroid cancer is not breast cancer.
Few forms of invasive breast cancer warrant no treatment unless the patient is so old that she is likely to die first of another condition, or the patient prefers to die of the disease….“Mammograms Spot Cancers That May Not Be Dangerous,” said….