Screening may save lives but it comes with a cost - and sometimes unbearable decisions - that shouldn’t be underestimated.
Articles on Breast cancer screening
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Long gone are the days when breast cancer was seen as a tumour with an underlying relationship with oestrogen. The picture is much more complex.
Researchers have been talking about the dangers of overdiagnosis for some time. But now a national survey shows most people aren’t told about the risk it poses to their health – and they want to know.
Major causes have been identified for most common cancers, like liver and lung. But we still haven’t identified one for breast cancer.
“It might do me some good and it won’t hurt to give it a go.” How often have you heard a phrase like this? Most people have naïve optimism about medical care. That’s the finding of a systematic review…
We’ve known for some time that women with dense breasts are at higher risk of breast cancers that are difficult to detect by mammography. To address this problem, 19 US states have introduced laws requiring…
A large study on the benefits of breast cancer screening has cast doubt on the value of mammograms in reducing deaths from the disease in women aged 40-49 compared to other methods such as physical examination…
Celebrities have taken to “live” mammograms on television, undergoing this usually very private procedure in a rather public way. This includes Today show co-host Lisa Wilkinson, and news presenter, Georgie…
Top contributors
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences,, Queensland University of Technology
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Principal Research Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Head of the Breast Cancer Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Biostatistics and Cancer Epidemiology, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Brett Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Public Health, University of Cambridge
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PhD, Brunel University of London
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Senior Research Manager, University of Sydney and Honorary Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Associate Professor, Adelaide University
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Professor, School of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Senior Research Fellow at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; Adjunct Lecturer, Monash University