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Mammography and early breast cancer detection : how screening saves lives / Alan B. Hollingsworth, M.D.

Author:

Hollingsworth, Alan B., author.

ISBN:

9781476666105

Personal Author:

Hollingsworth, Alan B., author.

Physical Description:

viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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text

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unmediated

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volume

Series:

McFarland health topics series

McFarland health topics.

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"Written by one of the first physicians in the country to specialize in breast cancer risk assessment, genetic testing and high-risk interventions, this book focuses on the screening controversy and explains the arguments used on both sides. The author covers the history of screening, from the first mobile unit to the cutting edge imaging technology of today"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Breast -- Radiography.

Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis.

Breast -- Imaging.

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Early detection of breast cancer is critical. Yet efforts to cut back on mammography or even stop screening altogether have been gaining ground in the medical community's decades-long debate over testing and treatment. It is not a purely scientific debate--back-room politics and hidden agendas have played as much a role as clinical data, leading to some surprising conclusions.

Written by one of the first physicians in the country to specialize in breast cancer risk assessment, genetic testing and high-risk interventions, this book focuses on the screening controversy and explains the arguments used on both sides. The author covers the history of screening, from the first mobile unit on the streets of Manhattan to the cutting edge imaging technology of today.

Author Notes

Alan B. Hollingsworth, M.D., serves as medical director of Mercy Breast Center, a screening and diagnostic facility at Mercy Hospital, Oklahoma City. He received his MD with Distinction from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1975 where he was elected First vice-president of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed a residency in general surgery at the University of Oklahoma that included a one-year fellowship in surgical pathology at UCLA. He limited his practice to breast cancer surgery in the 1980s and was the founding medical director of Oklahoma's first multidisciplinary breast clinic at his alma mater where he was also named as the first holder of the G Rainey Williams Chair in Surgical Breast Oncology. He was one of the first physicians in the country to begin a formal risk assessment program in 1993, and today his practice is limited to risk assessment, genetic testing, and multimodality screening for high-risk patients.

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In 2015, the American Cancer Society announced new mammography guidelines: women should begin to get annual mammograms at age 45, switching to every other year at age 55, which is less frequently than previously advised. Physician Hollingsworth (medical director, Mercy Breast Ctr., Oklahoma City) is concerned that both doctors and the public have become overly enamored of the "less is more" philosophy of breast cancer screening. "Nobody," says the author, "is concentrating on bringing back to the fold women who erroneously reject such check- ups," a phenomenon he finds of far more concern than overestimating the benefits of screening. In detailed, clearly written chapters such as "Biology Can Trump, but Size Matters," "Circumstantial Evidence-Based Medicine," and "Do These Genes Make Me Look Dense?" the author, who in 1993 was one of the first U.S. physicians to begin a formal risk-assessment program, uses his expertise and current findings to convince readers that screening is still worth it. The book's ample notes and bibliography offer plentiful avenues for further exploration. VERDICT There are an abundance of "less-is-more" resources available on this subject; however, Hollingsworth's confident, accessible argument against such a philosophy provides a welcome look at another option. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. 1
1 Last Word vs. Final Word	p. 5
2 Early Diagnosis May Be the Key, but It's Not a Lock	p. 10
3 Biology Can Trump; but Size Matters	p. 16
4 Prostate Is Not Breast, So Give It a Rest	p. 22
5 The Four Horsemen That Inflate the Power of Mammography	p. 31
6 The Four Horsemen Are Throttled by Clinical Trials, but O Canada!	p. 41
7 The Mammography Civil War (1993-1997)	p. 49
8 The Number Games	p. 61
9 The (Over)Selling of Mammography	p. 67
10 The Evidence for Evidence-Based Medicine (or, How to Raise the Bar of Bias: An Editorial)	p. 74
11 Blame It on Canada (and Something's Rotten in Denmark, Too)	p. 82
12 Overdiagnosis: Embracing Your Inner Malignancy	p. 88
13 Overdiagnosis Part 2: A Way Out of the Wet Paper Bag	p. 95
14 The Task Force Opens Fire	p. 105
15 The Zombies Among Us	p. 121
16 Circumstantial Evidence-Based Medicine	p. 128
17 The Social Tsunami of Anti-Screening	p. 137
18 The 2015 ACS Peace Accord-Science or Societal Pressure?	p. 144
19 A Journey to the Pathology Lab to View the By-Products of Screening	p. 152
20 Risk-Based Screening-It Feels So Right, but Wait...	p. 168
21 The Greatest Story Never Told	p. 178
22 The Myth of Mammography	p. 184
23 Do These Genes Make Me Look Dense?	p. 192
24 The Emperor of All Modalities	p. 201
25 The Bright Side of the Dark Side of the Force	p. 210
26 The Crystal Ball Is Fair to Partly Cloudy	p. 222
Chapter Notes	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 247

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