Comments on: Screening Guidelines Change http://www.babygooroo.com/index.php/2010/01/07/screening-guidelines-change/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:14:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Amy Spangler http://www.babygooroo.com/index.php/2010/01/07/screening-guidelines-change/comment-page-1/#comment-53876 Amy Spangler Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:22:49 +0000 http://www.babygooroo.com/?p=1202#comment-53876 My decision to switch to every other year screening was reaffirmed after reading the February 2010 issue of Wellness Letter, a publication of the the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. According to John Swartzberg, MD, Chair, Editorial Board, "... if you have to argue for years about how valuable a test (or treatment) is, you can be sure it's not very valuable. Good tests like the Pap test and colonoscopy, prove out quickly and clearly. The death rate falls substantially. The mortality rate from breast cancer has been falling in the last 20 years and some of this is clearly due to mammography-but the drop has been gradual and it has come at great cost in false results and unnecessary treatment." My decision to switch to every other year screening was reaffirmed after reading the February 2010 issue of Wellness Letter, a publication of the the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.

According to John Swartzberg, MD, Chair, Editorial Board, “… if you have to argue for years about how valuable a test (or treatment) is, you can be sure it’s not very valuable. Good tests like the Pap test and colonoscopy, prove out quickly and clearly. The death rate falls substantially. The mortality rate from breast cancer has been falling in the last 20 years and some of this is clearly due to mammography-but the drop has been gradual and it has come at great cost in false results and unnecessary treatment.”

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