What Doctors Don't Tell YouTreating women who have had a false positive mammography screening (detecting cancer where there is none) is a third of the cost of providing screening for all women, Swedish researchers have disc ...
Women have had another salutary reminder that, despite what doctors and the government like to pretend, the cervical smear test is a far from foolproof marker for cancer (see WDDTY, Vol 1 No 3). ...
While doctors consider stepping up breast cancer screening, new data has revealed a regularly screened woman who develops cancer is no better off than a victim who had never had a mammogram. ...
Early in May, in a landmark decision, the British courts struck a blow for patient rights. The Court of Appeal held in favour of Ms S, a woman who had been forcibly given a caesarean section agai ...
A new test for cervical cancer, a supposed improvement over the pap smear tests now used, has shown a high rate of false positives. ...
Bowel cancer screening, the latest preventive medicine being urged on the public, provides an instructive case study of how a single interpretation in medicine quickly transforms into established ...
If mammography is far from being an exact science, the interpretation of the x-rays by radiologists is more an amateur art form. ...
A decided lack of standards in the cervical cancer screening programme is responsible for many false diagnoses of cancer, announced the National Audit Office. ...
High quality mammograms are often misread and misinterpreted even by very experienced radiologists, according to research by Yale University School of Medicine (JAMA, 26 May 1993). ...
Women whose cervical smears turn up mild abnormalities should not have invasive investigations, according to guidelines recently drawn up by a workshop in Oxford. ...
