The enhanced tactile sensitivity of blind and visually impaired women might make them especially suitable for breast examination, according to a visionary German gynaecologist. If it’s true that mammography is an effective breast cancer screening [more]
When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, and a technique exists that could identify additional lesions in the same or the opposite breast, what possible reason could there be for not using it? Download [more]
Breast screening programmes won’t work if women don’t attend. But can this justify campaigns that exaggerate both the risk of getting breast cancer and the benefits of screening? Margaret McCartney believes not. She won a [more]
Decades after breast screening programmes first started, their value remains hotly disputed. Some lives are saved, but it’s hard to tell how many. False-positives are a problem, but it’s a risk some are happy to [more]
Roland Holland started investigating mammograms and their relation to pathological findings as part of the first European pilot of breast screening. His findings were later used by Umberto Veronesi as key evidence in support of [more]
Breast examination by specially trained young women doctors is proving effective at picking up tumours in the general population in a number of developing countries. If it can be shown to affect mortality rates, this [more]