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Reduce your risk of breast cancer: Avoid mammograms

Want to know the best way to cut your chances of developing breast cancer? Stop having screening mammograms.

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When to get a 2nd pathology opinion

Instead of following the advice, she paid for a second pathology opinion from each of the above experts who both assured her that she did not have DCIS and required only periodic follow-ups. When...

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Mammogram uproar

When a technology’s lifesaving benefit has been oversold to the public for over three decades—and the harms downplayed—any cutback in recommendations will be met with a firestorm of anger. That exactly...

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New Pap test guidelines

I doubt many women have had the pros and cons of the Pap test explained to them by their doctors. Nor are we told how rare cervical cancer is. We have been lead to believe that Pap testing is reason...

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Prostate cancer treatment misused

Hot flashes, weakness, fatigue, cognitive impairment, and depression are the “substantial unintended side effects” of ADT, aka chemical castration. The VA study is not the first to link ADT to an...

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