Reply to Interesting research on the over diagnosis of breast 'cancer' due to mammograms

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Interesting research on the over diagnosis of breast 'cancer' due to mammograms"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The conclusion about over detection is only correct if the actual rate of occurrence of invasive, life threatening breast cancer has been steady. That seems to be an assumption by the researchers. Maybe early detection is saving more lives than recognized because cancer death rates would otherwise be climbing.

Does anyone know how likely this might be? I have no idea, but our world has become so much more toxic in the last few decades. The rates for many other diseases have been climbing, especially autoimmune.[/quote]

It's a lot like projected budgets in politics. Having costs come in under projections have not saved actual money. Much like a dress on sale. You haven't saved, unless you didn't buy it at all.

What they DO know is the number of deaths from breast cancer is much lower than the rate of false positives from mammogram. Sonograms lead to more biopsies, as do MRIs. 3-D is showing more promise, but it also leads to the detection of lesions that might never have needed treatment. Chemo and radiation is nothing to sneeze at. And then there is the lasting emotional trauma of callbacks and subsequent testing. [/quote]

Thanks. I guess what I really am wondering is how reliable are the cancer rate projections. My mother is going through right now, actually.[/quote]

They honestly don't know. Canadian and Norwegian studies do not support lowered death rates. Incidentally, breast cancer is more deadly in younger women. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics