Comments on: If you are 40, hold the mammogram!

By: pilocarpine

pilocarpine — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:21:35 +0000

very enlightening.

therefore, public fund should be stopped immediately from printing and organizing all those BSE. i think we must go forward.

By: Palmdoc

Palmdoc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:45:00 +0000

Oh, another point is that the data is American. In Malaysia, the case may be (I believe) that the average age of women getting breast cancer is a lot younger than the west, hence screening at 40 rather than 50 may make more sense.

By: Palmdoc

Palmdoc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:20:15 +0000

In a talk by Prof Yip Cheng Har I listened to some time back, she presented convincing data that BSE is indeed quite useless.

By: pilocarpine

pilocarpine — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:43:51 +0000

this is a good update.

but i disagree against not teaching BSE, somehow risk of anxiety versus risk of late detection of breast CA, i think we have the clear winner.