Word: danishness
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...reaction in the medical community was immediate--and fierce. Critics argued that the methodology of the Danish review was flawed and that several studies were too hastily thrown out. Others pointed out that both mammography and breast cancer treatments are better now than they were in the 1970s and '80s, when some of those studies were conducted. Some breast cancer advocates have even wondered whether the Danish researchers might have had an economic or a political incentive to downplay the benefits of what are fairly expensive screening programs...
...authors of the Danish study, which was published in the journal Lancet last October, focused on routine mammography of healthy women. They reviewed seven large clinical trials--several of them 30 years old--that were designed to figure out whether such mammograms actually saved lives. Using the most up-to-date standards of what makes a good clinical trial, they concluded that five of the studies were so primitive or of such poor quality that their conclusions could not be trusted. Those five included ones that found that routine mammograms reduce a woman's risk of dying from breast cancer...
Despite these drawbacks, there are very real benefits to mammograms. The earlier a cancer is found, the more options a woman usually has with regard to treatment--something the Danish review did not address. Many women with smaller tumors, for example, may be able to forgo chemotherapy, opting for breast-sparing surgery and hormonal treatment. To these women, a few anxiety-provoking false positives may seem like a small price...
...them is bad tempered; another is terminally diffident; two are burdened with awful parents--one permanently angry, another alcoholic. The minister is losing touch with God, and frankly, the Italian woman really ought to be studying Danish so that she can articulate her unlikely ardor for the shy tutor in his native language...
...work out for everyone but that the route to those consummations is so persuasive, with the cast as unactorish as any you've ever seen in a movie. And writer-director Lone Scherfig abides by the stern confines of "Dogma 95," the filmmaking theory promulgated by a group of Danish directors in 1995 that forbids, among other things, musical scores, artificial light and settings, even sound looping. Who knew that charm could survive--let alone prosper--under those strictures...