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"For general breast cancer screening information, contact the Susan B. Komen Foundation at 800-462-9273, or at www.breastcancerinfo.com. 'omfrey is a staple for treating cuts, scrapes and skin conditions. But according to herbalists, a comfrey poultice will relieve pain and irritation from blocked milk ducts, as well as reduce soreness from engorged breasts. To prepare a soothing poultice: 1 Take a handful of fresh or dried comfrey leaves, place in a piece of cheesecloth or a cloth diaper, and tie with a piece of string or twine." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"The study examined the benefits and negative effects of seven breast cancer screening programs on 500,000 women in the United States, Canada, Scotland and Sweden. • Dr. Samuel Epstein of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, "Screening mammography poses significant and cumulative risks of breast cancer for pre-menopausal women." ..."The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening," says Dr." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"The debate is worth following closely," concluded the editor of the journal, "because women are deciding about breast cancer screening, and it's our role to keep them informed as best we can." Yet it is worth remembering that "mammography screening may lead to an overdiagnosis of breast cancer—that is, the detection of a tumor that would not have become clinically detectable in the patient's lifetime." Thus, women must consider the adverse consequences of false-positive mammograms." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"None of the relevant science escaped the deliberations of the us Preventive Services Task Force (Humphrey and colleagues, "Breast Cancer Screening," 2002), particularly since Woolf was one of the principal participants. Nonetheless, the best the us Preventive Services Task Force, "Screening for Breast Cancer" (2002), could manage was a compromise posture, based on "fair evidence," that recommended mam-mographic screening "every 1 to 2 years for women aged 40 and older." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"The primary outcome of any breast cancer screening study is breast cancer death. While it is obvious that some women with breast cancer die from breast cancer, for others the cause of death is questionable. In the HIP study, 71 deaths were judged questionable in the breast exam/mammography group, versus 73 in the control group. That is about what one would expect: deaths were more or less equally likely to be considered questionable in the two groups." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.) "In the context of what was known about breast cancer screening, were the findings really so heretical? Not especially. Let's look at all the randomized trials I've discussed, starting with the best-studied age group: women age 50 to 70. Think about what is being compared to what." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.) "Currently, breast cancer screening epitomizes this approach. "Breast care centers," set up by health care systems, both promote screening and coordinate all subsequent services: biopsy, lumpectomy, plastic surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. The health care management literature is filled with articles on how to enhance their profitability. Also benefiting from cancer screening and preventive medicine generally are the for-profit systems that insure patients. Think about it. For insurers, the most reliable way to make money is to cover those least likely to need services." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

"Bross, Written Statement Submitted for the NIH/NCI Consensus Development Meeting on breast cancer screening, Sept. 14-16, 1977] Some patients are more genetically predisposed to breast cancer. Should these patients be exposed to repeated radiation mammography? [Clinical Oncology Royal College Radiology 18: 257-67, 2006] Even exposure to chest x-rays, particularly before the age of 20, heightens the risk for breast cancer with BRCA mutations. [Journal Clinical Oncology 24:3361-6, 2006] Quietly, the radiation emitted during mammography was reduced as digital films were introduced." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.) "An unacknowledged harm is that for up to 11 years after the initiation of breast cancer screening in women aged 40-49 years, screened women face a higher death rate from breast cancer than unscreened control women. ... We live in an era in which lip service is paid to the concept of the informed patient sharing in decision making. If we practice what we preach, physicians must let frightened women know that, even without screening, most women who get breast cancer will not die of it and that, despite screening, some women will still die of breast cancer. Cornelia J." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Julia Smith, director of New York University Cancer Institute's breast cancer screening and Prevention Program and director of the Lynne Cohen Breast Cancer Preventive Care Program at the NYU Cancer Institute and Bellevue Hospital in New York City. "It's totally consistent with our experience with patients," she says of the survey findings. Making the decision is not easy, she adds, whatever the woman's medical history. "These are very important decisions," Smith says, and it's crucial that women go to a center that is known for its high-risk assessment programs. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "Julia Smith, MD, PhD, director, breast cancer screening and Prevention Program, New York University (NYU) Cancer Institute, and director, Lynne Cohen Breast Cancer Preventive Care Program, NYU Cancer Institute and Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Journal of Clinical Oncology. Most breast cancer patients who choose to have their unaffected breast removed along with the diseased one say they don't regret their decision, a recent study has found. Furthermore, their quality of life equals that of women who chose not to have a preventive mastectomy, according to researchers." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"The effectiveness of breast cancer screening by mammography in younger women," Online J. Current Clin. Trials 193, No. 32, 1993. 57. A.N. Corps and K.D. Brown. "Stimulation of intestinal epithelial cell proliferation in culture by growth factors in human and ruminant mammary secretions," J. Endocrinol. 113:285-290, 1987. 58. R.J. Playford et al. "Effect of Luminal Growth Factor Preservation on Intestinal Growth," Lancet 2:843-848, 1993. 59. O.P. Chaurasia et al. "Insulin-like Growth factor-1 in Human Gastrointestinal Exocrine Secretions," Regul. Pept. 50:113-119, 1994. 60. H. Olanrewaju, L." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"U.S. Senate: "When detected early and when confined to the breast, the 5-year survival rate for this disease is over 95%. Mr. President, this is a remarkable statistic, and represents a dramatically improved picture than [sic] that of even a few years ago."7 Yet as the next chapter shows, there is considerable debate about whether mammography really does work. Faulty comparisons are also made between countries. The Office of National Statistics in the United Kingdom noted that five-year survival for colon cancer was 60 percent in the United States compared to 35 percent in Britain." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

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