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Sources: Good News--Lancet (2/16/02); University of Michigan. Bad News--Kaiser Family Foundation
Sources: Good News--National Center for Health Statistics; Bad News--National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration; Lancet (2/2/02...
...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...
...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...