Breast screening using mammography is "unjustified", concludes an article
published yesterday in the medical magazine The Lancet*. In an argument
which would not have disgraced a bunch of clerics debating the number of
angels who could stand on the head of a pin, two Danish medics have
trashed a decade's worth of research and added yet more weight to the
growing grumbling about the money being spent on early screening for breast
cancer.
Teresa Kay is single and 25 years old. Two months ago, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands. Doctors calculate that, in her age group, there is a 50% chance of a cure if the cancer is treated conventionally.