Breast Cancer Screening Debate

From Britains National Health System Thousands of women given breast cancer screening each year “are wrongly told that they have life-threatening cancer”, according to The Times. The newspaper said that the NHS breast screening programme does not give women enough information about the drawbacks of screening. The article is based on a narrative review critiquing the [...]

How we’re winning the war on breast cancer

I was 18 when I first felt a lump in my breast. Of course, I was convinced that I was going to die. This was three decades ago — back when we knew far less about breast cancer. A general surgeon removed the lump, which, thank goodness, wasn’t malignant.