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...topic that is for most women more emotional than medical. Add to that an immediate offensive blitz by some cancer doctors who were concerned that the new guidelines would essentially limit their patients' options for preventing breast-cancer death. "I am appalled and horrified," says Dr. David Dershaw, director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "We have something that saves lives, and to say we are not going to do it anymore is unconscionable...
...additional biopsies and patient anxiety - the relative benefit was too small to recommend screening in younger women. That conclusion has incensed some oncologists. "They are saying that we should take mammography away from women in their 40s because ... these factors outweigh the value of lives saved," says Dr. David Dershaw at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
Although the relative benefits of routine breast-cancer screening have been increasingly questioned by many within the cancer community, not everyone agrees that reducing mammography is the answer. "I am appalled and horrified," says Dr. David Dershaw, director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City in response to the new guidelines. "There is no doubt that mammography screening in women in their 40s saves lives. To recommend that women abandon that is absolutely horrifying...
...false-positive results of the screen. "They're saying that we should take away mammography for women in their 40s because we judged that these factors - the risk of false positives, and anxiety and the discomfort of compression during the test - outweighs the value of lives saved," says Dershaw...
...incipient malignancy on a mammogram that was previously marked clean. But that's hardly a fair test, say most practitioners. "You can't expect people to go into a field knowing they could be pulled into court for 10% of the cancer patients that they see," says Dr. David Dershaw, director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City. Indeed, the number of applicants for Sloan-Kettering's five training positions in breast radiology fell from an average of 40 a few years ago to 12 last year...