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...debate flared up again last week when an independent advisory panel to the National Cancer Institute concluded that a harsh critique by two Danish researchers of the data supporting mammography's benefits had enough merit that its conclusions should be addressed in the cancer database maintained by the NCI. For now, the cancer institute is not changing its basic recommendation that women age 40 and older undergo routine mammograms. But it is planning to review the policy. "This is a very complex issue," says Dr. Peter Greenwald, director of cancer prevention at the NCI. "It doesn't mean that...
...that assumption is the subject of renewed debate, thanks to a two-year-old Danish study. The controversial paper, first published in the British journal The Lancet and updated last October, posits that numerous flaws in current mammography technique render the results virtually useless. It also suggests that while mammograms may mean earlier detection of breast cancer, earlier detection does not necessarily mean a lower mortality rate. Specialists across the country met this proposition with outrage, fearing it could keep women from maintaining their mammography schedule...
Juha Christensen MICROSOFT Vice President, Microsoft Mobility Group 36, Danish www.microsoft.com...
...recently been in discussion with the Danish photonics company NKT about other possible uses for her research...
...bedroom of Keith M. Radford ’02. This installation featured a reading by former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a choral rendition of “10,000 Men of Harvard,” and a rerun of The Facts of Life in which Tootie eats a danish...