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Dan Kopans, MD, FACR, FSBI Discusses The Value of Mammograms on The Diane Rehm Show

Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Dan Kopans, MD, FACR, FSBI was a guest on the Diane Rehm Show on February 13, 2014. He discussed the controversial Canadian study published in the British Medical Journal and the value of mammograms. Listen to the segment here. 

BMJ Article on Breast Cancer Screening Effectiveness: Incredibly Flawed and Misleading

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

According to the American College of Radiology and Society of Breast Imaging, the recent breast cancer screening article (Miller et al) published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) is an incredibly misleading analysis based on the deeply flawed and widely discredited Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS). The results of this BMJ study, and others resulting from the CNBSS trial, should not be used to create breast cancer screening policy as this would place a great many women at increased risk of dying unnecessarily from breast cancer.


Annals of Internal Medicine Article on Breast Cancer Screening Costs: Incomplete, Misleading and Not Helpful

Monday, February 3, 2014
The article by Cristina O’Donoghue, MD, MPH and accompanying editorial by Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH released on Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine describe increased costs of mammographic screening due to adherence to ACS screening guidelines. The paper has numerous problems with its methodology and its conclusions are misleading. 
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