An upcoming book release recently caught my eye – The Death of Mammography: How Our Best Defense Against Breast Cancer Is Being Driven to Extinction. From the press release:

Mammography is still the only reliable tool available to diagnose breast cancer in its earliest and most treatable stages, though it can have up to a 30% miss rate. In The Death of Mammography ( Caveat Press 2006 ), co-authors Rene’ Jackson, RN BSN MS and Alberto Righi, MD, present a sharp critique of the failures of the medical liability system in the United States, as it pertains to “failure to diagnose breast cancer on mammography” litigation.

Leonard Berlin, M.D., F.A.C.R., Chairman Department of Radiology Rush North Shore Medical Center in Illinois says, “It is a combination of two books: one, an encyclopedia of knowledge regarding breast cancer and mammography; the other, a treatise on malpractice litigation and its impact on the practice of medicine in general, along with a first-hand account of a malpractice lawsuit focusing on a radiologist’s alleged missing of a tiny cancer on a mammogram. It calls into question, if not casts doubt on the ‘I’ll get a mammogram – – my breast cancer will be diagnosed early and I’ll be cured – – and if not, I’ll sue the radiologist’ mentality.”