New USPSTF mammography guidelines serve up more of the same

They say a leopard can't change its spots, a saying that fits the U.S. Preventive...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: ACS: Breast cancer screening should begin at age 45 Mammography screening at 40 works, Lancet study finds USPSTF mammo recs would cut coverage for 17M women Group offers details on USPSTF breast screening meta-analysis USPSTF rejects expanded breast screening guidelinesComments: 1/12/2016 4:31:32 PMJohn Keen, MD Dr. Monticciolo: Actually, screening less will make "cancers" go away-the overdiagnosed ones. 35% of screen-detected cancers are DCIS in younger women, see the tables in AIM. What do you mean that the USPSTF is not evidence based?  Because they forgot to cite the recent flawed Dutch study that ignores lead and length biases? The whole USPSTF process is evidence based. Cherry picking is bad practice for radiologists-and bad for science.   1/12/2016 5:26:23 PMRogerL Just do not use the term false positive. We just say that we cannot call the screen normal, recall for workup. Hardly a positive anything
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