Screening for Breast Cancer: Is It Worth It?
JAMA Clinical Reviews
English - January 22, 2019 16:00 - 17 minutes - 16.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 413 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Science medical clinicalpractice healthcare medicine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Breast cancer screening is debated passionately among those who advocate for very aggressive screening and other experts who believe that screening can be harmful. The arguments for all sides of the debate are best understood by knowing the numbers of women who will benefit or be harmed by breast cancer screening. Both sides of the debate are explained in this podcast by Nancy Keating, MD, and Lydia Pace, MD, both from the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.