Breast cancer screening still has a long ways to go: “The paradox of breast cancer screening is that there are indeed some tumors whose sojourn time is so long that they will never harm the patient and it is these tumors that we tend to detect more with intense screening.”
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I think the use of the phrase “crude tool” does a disservice and could potentially scare off women that should be using this “tool” until better scanning options become available.
Why? Do you think that risks of mammography like overdiagnosis shall be a secret?
Don’t you think women have a right to know about risks as well as benefits of any test especially tests that have such a small probability of benefitting them personally and that has a small risk of harming them by possibly subjecting them to potentially harmful treatment unnecessarily i.e. in case of overdiagnosis?
women that should be using this “tool” until better scanning options become available
Isn’t what women “should” or “shouldn’t” do are ultimately their personal choice?
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