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AYA Cancer incidence increase artifact
Figure 1 & Related DataDownload Figure 2 & Related DataDownload Figure 3 & Related DataDownload Figure 4 & Related DataDownload Figure 5 & Related DataDownload The increasing incidence of colorectal cancer in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) has been progressively reported....
AYA ACA DCE Cancer Survival Mortality Data
ACA Ca Surv Benefit Age 12-18 19-25 26-32Download Within a decade after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted, the Dependent Coverage Expansion (DCE) age group of 19 to 25 years has evidence for both longer survival in those diagnosed with cancer and in the cancer death rate. The attached...
Opening the blood-barrier is now more feasible but what to send through it is controversial.
A report in the New England Journal of Medicine documented the feasibility of ultra-sound guided blood-brain opening in 3 patients but the individual benefit was paradoxical and suggests that the presumed cause of Alzheimer’s disease is not correct. BBB Aducanumab Alzheimer Feb2024Download
U.S. Mental Health and Firearm Mortality Epidemic
The data and associated analyses results used in Bleyer A, Siegel S, Estrada J, Thomas CR. Fallacy of attributing the U.S. firearm mortality epidemic to mental health. PLOS ONE are posted here. The data sources, each publicly available, are: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). GBD...
Changing Culture
Is there a relationship between our failing healthcare system and medical societies? I am Dr. Mike Henderson, Central Oregon Medical Society president for the next couple of years. Medical societies promote the profession and its members. Given the inexorable declining state of healthcare, one...
Vast Study Casts Doubts on Value of Mammograms
By Gina Kolata / New York Times / February 11, 2014 Source: Miller AB, et al. Twenty five year follow-up for breast cancer incidence and mortality of the Canadian National Breast Screening Study: randomised screening trial. BMJ. Online February 11, 2014One of the largest and most meticulous...
Too Much Mammography
Source: BMJ 2014;348:g1403 February 11, 2014 The editorial accompanying the Canadian National Breast Cancer Screening Trial report in the BMJ was written by Mette Kalager, Dept. of Epidemiology, Harvard Medical School, and colleagues in Norway and Sweden concludes that long-term follow-up does...
Lead Author of Canadian Study Refutes ACR and SBI Criticisms
Anthony B. Miller,* Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto and lead author of the BMJ report of the Canadian randomized controlled trial that found no breast cancer or all-cause mortality benefit of annual mammograms in 45,000 women between the ages of 40 and 59 explains how criticism...
Good Samaritan Regional Med Center – September 12, 2014
"Breast Cancer Screening's Triple O: Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment, Overutilization"A presentation to the medical staff than included a 3-year update of the NEJM report on 3 decades of experience with screening mammography in the U.S.
Overdiagnosis Increases with Age from 30% to 80% for Favorable Biologies
By Donald R. Lannin, M.D. and Shiyi Wang, M.D., Ph.D. The recent article by Welch et al.1 in the Journal showed clearly that since the adoption of widespread screening mammography, small breast cancers have increased in incidence over three times more than large cancers have decreased. This...
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