I’m not talking about medical malpractice. The scientists who surveyed the mammogram studies did their job honorably. They looked at research that has slowly and without a lot of fanfare questioned the value of routine mammograms for women in their 40s without other risk factors. They concluded — as had others before them — that the benefits from screening younger women were oversold and the risks were undersold.
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| Medical miscommunication has twisted the results of the recent US Preventive Services Task Force study on mammograms, leaving women feeling even more vulnerable in the realm of breast cancer detection. (Photo: muffintoptn / Flickr) |
| The biology of the tumor — how aggressively it grows — is now judged more important than the size at which it was discovered. And the terrible reality is that we haven’t done much to change the survival rate of younger women who get this disease |
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