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.
In mid July, some sobering news emerged about ultrasound scanning. According to a Norwegian study of 2,000 babies performed by the National Centre for Foetal Medicine in Trondheim, those subject ...
The newest type of ultrasound scan the nuchal translucency scan is not much more accurate than a normal scan for detecting Downs' syndrome. For the last few years, women have been promised that th ...
Doctors are resorting to many tests during pregnancy and labour which they have no faith in just to avoid lawsuits. ...
Routine ultrasound screening of pregnant women does nothing to reduce the number of perinatal deaths, or improve pregnancy management or outcome, according to a study of 2600 women. ...
* Choose ‘fine-needle aspiration’ performed under ultrasound; it is thought to carry the least risks (Acta Cytol, 1995; 39: 449-52)
Frequent prenatal ultrasound exposure could restrict fetal growth by a third. ...
* Lung: PET scans are just as accurate as biopsies, with no significant health risks (Appl Radiol, 2003; 32: 9-17).
* Breast: MRI has variable accuracy (60-100 per cent)
When combined with plain X-rays, ultrasound is as effective as urography and may actually be safer, according to a new UK study.
