Dr. McDougall, in his most recent newsletter, reviews Mammography Screening: Truth, Lies and Controversy [Paperback] By Peter C. Gotzsche, MD. Dr. Gotzshe is "a Danish medical researcher, and leader of the Nordic Cochrane
Center at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has written numerous
reviews within the Cochrane collaboration, which is considered by most
doctors as the most unbiased source of medical reviews."
This book is very technical and will mostly appeal to readers interested
in a detailed story of flawed science and crooked researchers. The
evidence will sway most doctors, causing them to stop harping on you to
get a mammogram. You might expect medical doctors to act more ethically
than the rest of us humans, especially when it comes to something as
personal as the female breast. But they don’t and won’t until forced to
by work[s] such as Dr. Gotzsche’s new book.
Dr. McDougall compares the mammogram test to screening for prostate cancer with the PSA test, which he says has "fallen into disrepute."
I posted on the latest Nordic Cochrane study recently.
When I visited my oncologist recently for my annual check-up, we got into a discussion about prostate cancer. He caught my doubt about the treatment regimes and I got a long story about how a colleague of his had the DaVinci surgery by Dr. Patel in Orlando, that the cancer turned out to be the dangerous kind, and his colleague is fine now and glad he had it done.
I told him about my friend who had the surgery recently and is definitely not happy about the side effects. During the 45 years I have known him, my friend had a consistently positive, highly motivated way about him. That was gone, and it was shocking.
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