What Doctors Don't Tell YouAs breast cancer rates continue to spiral upward (to 185,000 women in the US and 28,000 women in the UK every year), the pressure is on for women, particularly those over 40, to have regular mammograms.
Our cover story this month reveals the astonishing fact that the most frequently diagnosed type of breast cancer is not cancer at all, but a ‘something’ that has gone slightly awry, but which, in the long term, is likely to sort itself out.
Non-lethal cancers, spontaneous remissions, people with genetic risk factors who don’t get cancer in their lifetime - these things are neither mystical nor miraculous; they are medical facts.
The cancer establishment was recently rocked to its core when Professor Michael Baum, an eminent and well-respected breast surgeon and researcher, claimed that screening for breast cancer should be scrapped because it caused hundreds of healthy...
I am a 51-year-old woman diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) 10 months ago. I was told that some cells had become invasive and that - worst of all - there was no treatment option other than mastectomy, a drug regimen including tamoxifen...
One of the things I do in my job is to periodically scour the letters pages of medical journals. On more than one occasion, this arcane activity has borne amazing fruit. At those times, I am astonished to discover another of medicine’s darkest...
