Mammograms UPDATE
A recent JAMA article focuses on breast cancer and prostate cancer screening
results:
Since screening for breast cancer (was introduced, “The researchers report a 40% increase in breast cancer diagnoses and a near doubling of early stage cancers, but just a 10% decline in cancers that have spread beyond thebreast to the lymph nodes or elsewhere in the body.”
The increase in diagnoses does not translate into fewer deaths. Instead, the researchers found, that innocuous cancers are being detected and aggressively treated without justification–as they pose no life-threatening risk.
Screening for prostate cancer and breast cancer have hugely increased the diagnosis of cancer but has done little to help those whose cancer is truly in need of treatment. “Both have a problem that runs counter to everything people have been told about cancer: They are finding cancers that do not need to be found because they would never spread and kill or even be noticed if left alone….
At the same time, both screening tests are not making much of a dent in the number of cancers that are deadly.”
“The very idea that some cancers are not dangerous and some might actually go away on their own can be hard to swallow“, researchers say.
“It is so counterintuitive that it raises debate every time it comes up and every time it has been observed,” said Dr. Barnett Kramer, associate director for disease prevention at the National Institutes of Health.
Another reason the idea that a disease “might actually go away on their own can be hard to swallow” is that it collides with the profit-driven medical paradigm that holds Americans hostage.
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