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National Breast Cancer Coalition Thanks to Laura N. for this blog post about the new breast cancer screening guidelines and the outrage that followed.
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Outraged breast cancer survivors were heard loud and clear this past week – they weren’t happy with the new breast cancer screening guidelines. But why the outrage against guidelines based ...
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Everyone was talking about breast cancer last week. Were you? Make sure you know the Myths & Truths about breast cancer and then commit to talking with others. http://takeaction.stopbreastcancer.org/M
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"There are multiple reasons women are ill-informed about breast cancer. The fault lies primarily with their physicians, the cancer establishment, and the news media—especially the news media. Until coverage of breast cancer rises above the level of scary warnings mixed with heartwarming stories of cancer survivors, wom...en are likely to go on being perplexed." Talk to the Media about breast cancer and make a difference. http://takeaction.stopbreastcancer.org/T
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Many are dismissing the new breast cancer recommendations as a hasty reversal of years of authoritative medical advice. But evidence weighing against screenings for women in their 40s has in fact been mounting for years.
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For two decades, Visco says, cancer groups have oversold and oversimplified the benefits of early detection to get women to follow their advice about breast screening. Many women now see mammograms as completely positive, with no risks, and are unwilling to give them up.
"When we give public health messages, we better b...e damn sure that they are rooted in a high level of evidence," Visco says. "Taking back our words when we finally have the right evidence is virtually impossible."
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Breast cancer campaigns have helped raise awareness. But are all those pink ribbons giving women an inflated fear of the disease?...
National Breast Cancer Coalition It's like deja vu all over again.
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The current dispute over mammograms gives many people who’ve been around since the 1980s a sense of déjà vu. Like archeologists arguing endlessly over the same set of bones, cancer specialists, it can seem, have been arguing endlessly over pretty much the same set of data.
National Breast Cancer Coalition One of many columns in this blog that provides analysis of the media coverage of the breast cancer screening story (and health news in general)
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National Breast Cancer Coalition Quoting National Women's Health Network President Cynthia Pearson: Information is always a good thing and we’re glad more women now have access to good information. But, I’m not at all happy today. Not even to be proven right about things that I took a lot of criticism for saying. Rather, I’m outraged. We’ve known for ...16 years that mammography screening doesn’t work well for women before menopause, and not at all for women under 40. And at the same time, we’ve known that a significant number of breast cancer cases occur in women under 50. So once we knew mammography wasn’t good enough, the next step was obvious – we need to find something better.
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I expected some controversy and debate about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s new recommendations about breast cancer screening, but nothing as virulent as what has occurred over the past few days.
National Breast Cancer Coalition As Dr. Sue Love has said on her own Facebook page: "Most women under 50 actually find their cancers on palpation and are still cured. It is about the biology of the tumor NOT when it is found that is critical for survival. What the studies showed is that in young women mammograms are not life saving because they miss t...he aggressive cancers and also cause some cancers from the cumulative radiation. Formal BSE as taught by docs has NOT been shown to be better than the normal poking around we all do. That is why docs should not teach it. It does not say that women should not get to know their breasts." Here is one woman's story which illustrates the facts that Dr. Love describes.
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At 35, I had my first mammogram. It was clean as a whistle. At 36, I was diagnosed with three cancerous tumors in my right breast, two of which were larger than 2.5 centimeters.
National Breast Cancer Coalition "The dogma that more is always better when it comes to cancer screening has taken hold, undiluted by any sense of screening's drawbacks. Yet there are drawbacks—ranging from the risk of false positives to the more complex issues of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. While early detection can certainly have benefits, it's... not true that screening can only help—and can't hurt." You've heard lots of talk about the benefits of screening; read the full article and learn more about the shortcomings -- and harms -- of cancer screening. Then, make a personal choice.
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has announced new mammography guidelines this week. While the task force previously encouraged screenings for women beginning at 40, it has now pushed the threshold to 50. Concerns over frequent false positives and p
See MoreNational Breast Cancer Coalition From the White House: Just so there’s no ambiguity, here are the answers to about every question you (or “critics”) might have on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
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National Breast Cancer Coalition "This is not an issue of what we want to believe or what we have been told. The issue is, 'What does the science tell us?' Women deserve the truth even when it is complicated. They can accept it."
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In Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better model.
National Breast Cancer Coalition “This is our opportunity to look beyond emotions,” said Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition. The task force “is an independent body of experts that took an objective look at the data,” Ms. Visco said. “These are the people we should be listening to when it comes to public health messages.”
www.nytimes.com
The new recommendations, released Monday by an influential group, reverse longstanding guidelines and are aimed at reducing harm from overtreatment.
National Breast Cancer Coalition "It's about time," said Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, a Washington-based patient advocacy group. "Women deserve the truth -- and the truth is the evidence says this is not always helpful and can be harmful."
www.washingtonpost.com
Women in their 40s should stop routinely getting annual mammograms, and older women should cut back to one scheduled exam every other year, an influential federal task force has concluded, challenging the use of one of the most common medical tests.
National Breast Cancer Coalition NBCC commends new USPSTF guidelines on mammography and BSE. http://tr.im/F6m9
