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Hello bOOb Bloggettes: It might surprise many of you to know (it did me) that the Swiss are phasing-out mammography due to its detriments. Let’s look at what they based their decision on. Some prominent studies were concluded, and a meta-analysis was performed by the Nordic Cochrane Centre — thought to be the world’s finest research center and most unbiased — which caught medicine’s eye around the globe. After extensive review of the literature, one Read more…

  Hello bOObs Bloggettes: Today we’ll start to tease apart why women are getting incorrect information on different aspects of breast cancer screening. One of the problems is that three different medical factions are working off of three different sets of information. Let’s look at this example to set up the problem: A woman has dense breasts but is not told by her gynecologist (the referring physician who wrote the mammogram prescription) that her breasts Read more…

Hello bOObs Bloggettes. We’re kicking off the New Year with a new blog! One doesn’t think about physical trauma leading to tumor formation but according to the literature sometimes this can happen. We’ll consider this today and look how mammography’s breast compression might fit in. Consider this personal story: My late husband had a cigarette burn scar on his chest for years (a drunken sot at a party bumped into him, he lamented). A doctor Read more…