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June 26, 2007
yet more on mammograms
A very astute reader, one who has a dog in this fight, sent me a commentary that appeared in Lancet last year (Vol 368 p1854-6) (but still premium content which one must pay to read) which was basically a defense by Zahl etal of their study debunking the Swedish Two-County trial of screening mammography. There appears to be some significant editorial policy violation, in which their article was removed, contrary to accepted editorial and business policy. (Lancet was not the journal that removed their article.)
But more, it is evident that mammography is a third rail, the sacred cow, of medicine. There are many, of course, but this is a big one.
Cultural iatrogenesis | By Robert Maddox | 01:37 PM