DCIS Reclassified? COMET Study

Statins and breast cancer? By Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center!

Many modern women in our medically fear-driven society, have understandably become hypochondriacal.

We are insistently guided, even reprimanded, to get regular mammograms, regular DEXA scans, regular lipid screening, and on and on.

I was even told I could not continue to see my provider if I didn’t get a mammogram!

Thus, most of us try to be “good girls”. We line up to go to see docs. Unlike our hubbies who have to be lassoed into medical action.

Women understandably often live in fear.

American women can become so medically terrorized, no wonder they take so many anti-depressants. Or line up for prophylactic bilateral breast removal?

The number of prophylactic mastectomies (CPMs) has increased since Angelina Jolie's 2013 announcement that she had a double mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA1 gene.

CPMs now account for up to 25% of mastectomies.

One of the biggest fears women have is of breast cancer.

Every woman fears breast cancer and potential radiation, surgery and chemo.

What if 20% of these cases of breast cancer did not need these interventions?

Let’s take a look.