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Forum: her2group 09-09-2010, 07:06 AM
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Posted By gdpawel
Lessons from the Mammography Wars

A thoughtful piece was published in the New England Journal of Medicine about the miscommunication that took place last November of what the USPSTF tried to convey and the complicity of certain...
Forum: her2group 01-13-2010, 11:33 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Mammography Screening for Women Under Fifty

The storm that greeted the USPSTF guidelines on mammography screening for women in their 40s prompted the Senate to insert a mandate in its health care reform bill that every insurer cover every...
Forum: her2group 01-12-2010, 11:12 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Follow the mammogram money

Wall Street Journal's Alicia Mundy reported that the final health care bill in Congress is likely to require coverage for more mammagrams than the US recommended after women's groups, doctors and...
Forum: her2group 12-08-2009, 07:17 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Re: New Proposed Changes to Mammogram Guidelines

Health care is built around the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors devote a great deal of time and money to their medical education and patients seek out their expertise.

This bill is a perfect...
Forum: her2group 12-06-2009, 02:05 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Eleven Health & Prevention Organizations Defend USPSTF Mammogram Recommendations

Eleven Health & Prevention Organizations Defend USPSTF Mammogram Recommendations in Letter to Congress
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Forum: her2group 12-04-2009, 06:52 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Re: New Proposed Changes to Mammogram Guidelines

"60 minutes presents a pretty slanted perspective of many stories"

Like the Faux News Channel
Forum: her2group 12-02-2009, 09:02 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Re: New Proposed Changes to Mammogram Guidelines

Carolyns

Interesting that you point out over 75% of the treatments that have kept you alive over the last 4 years are not approved for breast cancer.

Because tumor response can't be predicted...
Forum: her2group 12-01-2009, 11:30 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Fear-mongering media rhetoric

The rampant fear-mongering rhetoric that has framed much of the media's response to the recommendations seems to have focused primarily on individual women and doctors who are outraged.

The...
Forum: her2group 11-30-2009, 12:23 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
The Politics of Mammograms

Rather than explaining the science behind the recommendation, the news media exploited the politics of it. The press has succeeded in sowing seeds of confusion and doubt.

"USPSTF recommends...
Forum: her2group 11-30-2009, 07:25 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Re: New Proposed Changes to Mammogram Guidelines

Rich66

http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/3rduspstf/breastCancer/brcanrr.htm

Sandra

My wife was a cancer treatment victim. I have a number of relatives that had or have breast cancer. I became...
Forum: her2group 11-29-2009, 10:18 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Mammography and the Corporate Breast

The USPSTF would seem as unlikely a target for attack as Santa's elves. For a quarter-century, this squeaky-clean, underappreciated group of doctors and nurses who are specialists in preventive...
Forum: her2group 11-27-2009, 07:51 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment

The New York Times reports a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted that data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that view into...
Forum: her2group 11-25-2009, 06:39 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
Understanding the new mammography guidelines

The Washington Post addressed the mammogram recommendations by asking some questions to Kay Dickersin, director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Center for Clinical Trials at the John Hopkins...
Forum: her2group 11-25-2009, 06:37 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
The other side of the coin - radiation risk

The other side of the coin is radiation risk imposed by mammography. It is not simply of negligible value in younger women, but may have a net harm effect, if women who have mammograms at age 40...
Forum: her2group 11-25-2009, 06:36 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
American Cancer Society's Brawley Backpedaling

According to the Atlantic's John Crewdson, the only American reporter at the Stockholm news conference in 2002, on The Lancet publication of the Swedish meta-analysis, analyzing and updating the...
Forum: her2group 11-21-2009, 07:15 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 10,619
Posted By gdpawel
USPSTF mammogram recommendation is not new

The news about mammograms is not brand new information based on one study that just came out. The recommendations that the Preventive Services Task Force (PSTF) released is based on research that...
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