Breast Cancer
From the Journals
This is how you get patients back for follow-up cancer testing
“What concerns me is that despite the various interventions implemented to encourage and support patients to return for follow-up testing, over 60...
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USPSTF should reconsider recommendation to lower mammogram age: Experts
The benefit is arguably small, while the harms appear quite significant.
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Older women who get mammograms risk overdiagnosis
The proportion of older women who continue to receive screening mammograms and may experience breast cancer overdiagnosis is “considerable” and “...
Commentary
The safety of vaginal estrogen in breast cancer survivors
Concomitant use of vaginal estrogen and aromatase inhibitors was associated with a higher risk for breast cancer recurrence than was use of...
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AI mammogram screening is equivalent to human readers
“That the AI system was able to match the performance of the average reader in this specialized group of mammogram readers indicates the...
Commentary
Mammography breast density reporting: What it means for clinicians
Should this be something that we talk to patients about, utilizing shared decision-making to decide about whether follow-up testing is necessary...
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Cancer rates rise among people under age 50
“If we don’t understand what’s causing this risk and we can’t do something to change it, we’re afraid that as time goes on, it’s going to become a...
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Older women risk overdiagnosis with mammograms: Study
Overdiagnosis carries the risks of complications from overtreatment, plus financial and emotional hardships.
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Black women weigh emerging risks of ‘creamy crack’ hair straighteners
Mounting evidence now shows that chemical straighteners could be a health hazard.
Commentary
Who owns your genes?
The assumption of any sane person would be that he or she owns his or her own genes. I mean, how dumb a question is that?
Commentary
The unique approach involved in age-specific concerns surrounding young patients with breast cancer
We need to take care of many things, which can go from their job, family, fertility, and all these things are specific to these women and can...