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In a Los Angeles Times (7/20) op-ed, H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, writes, “If you haven’t gotten this message already, you should heed it now: The benefits of screening for breast cancer are limited.” Welch argues, “We should be doing fewer screening mammograms, not more
HealthDay (7/16, Norton) reports that investigators “created a model of breast anatomy based on CT scans from 219 women – who ranged in age, ethnicity and breast density.” The study “estimate[d] that the radiation dose from a screening mammogram is anywhere from 20 percent to 35 percent lower than previously” believed. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.