Monthly Archives: December 2010






Effect of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Mortality in Norway N Engl J Med 2010; 363:1203‐1210 September 23, 2010 We analyzed data from 40,075 women with breast cancer. The rate of death was reduced by 7.2 deaths per 100,000 person‐years in the screening group as compared with the historical screening group […]

Effect of Screening Mammography


Sunday, 25 October 2009 © 2009 by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. http://www.cancerdecisions.com/content/view/281/2/lang,english/ There appears to be discord at the top of the American Cancer Society (ACS) over the promotion of breast cancer screening. According to a front-page article in the New York Times, the ACS intends to abandon its rigid […]

Discord on Mammography Roils the ACS