All of that is true, but radiation risk is still vastly overstated in older patients.

To be fair, mammography has an incredibly low radiation dose, and the earliest you would ever see the a radiation-caused cancer (which would be relatively benign thyroid cancer) is 20 years after the fact. A mammogram doesn’t approach even that risk level. We always hesitate to radiate younger patients, but it doesn’t…

Because ultrasound is used as the second level of information on a focal lesion seen by mammogram. It’s unsuitable for screening, too high false positive rate, too low sensitivity, and too subjective.

Which I responded to already, see below.

There is also the balance of screening benefits vs radiation. In general, radiologists hesitate on radiating a patient under 40.

“early” breast cancers like DCIS are absolutely being over treated. It’s considered heretical to not biopsy/remove them, and that is a problem. That said, breast cancer in the 40-50 age group is both the hardest to detect (because relative premenopausal breast density) and the most aggressive. It’s hard to say stop…

New screening tests are in development. The one most promising at the moment is called MBI, molecular breast imaging.

If you started with ultrasound, every otherwise benign finding would end up biopsied. Ultrasound is a supplement to mammogram, not the other way around. The only exception is very young women with palpable findings.

You are very wrong. The false positive rate of MRI is incredibly high, MRI is useful to stage already found breast cancers and perhaps to screen in BRCA patients (patients the the “breast cancer gene.) The latter group mostly because their risk is already so high it makes the chance of a false positive very low.

That is genius!

I saw Little Shop of Horrors way too young, and had nightmares about flesh eating plants for years. That play/movie still scares the crap out of me. People tell me it’s hilarious, and I can’t even rewatch it to find out.

She also has some rules that just don’t make sense. Once she said something like “who wears a cowl-neck anymore!” and I was like, isn’t the cowl-neck actually pretty trendy right now? Pretty sure a bunch of catalogues are pushing it at the moment. It’s just confusing, because Marie Clare also struck me as a magazine…

I assume her store is filled with all her amazing clothes, making her a local treasure.

Yes, but perhaps explains why he’s referencing Pink Floyd.

I think a new mix of The Wall was just released, but not sure. I heard it on the radio and was like, huh?

Have you tried the Caudalie radiance serum? It actually made my red scars fade. I’ve been proselytizing it since.

I usually watch The Voice after I had a glass of wine and while scrolling through my email and may have misinterpreted, but didn’t either Blake or Adam make a comment at the beginning of this (the one currently on the air) season about how good Gwen is as a coach and how this could be the year a woman coach wins? I…

That is a very good idea. Just found out about Shoes of Prey—which lets you custom design your shoes. I’m very excited about it.

What the fuck Meyer?! I had actually thought this would be a decent trashy read when I first heard about it, maybe play with the gender stereotypes (because I naively assumed you had taken the Twilight criticism to heart.) I guess I was wrong. You do realize, Meyer, that actual fanfiction has truly clever plays on…

currently researching home solar panel options, and it looks like there is expected to be a breakthrough in large-scale home batteries in a few years. The panels came down in price, but the batteries are a problem if you don’t live somewhere with constant sunshine.