Guest guest Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 Such a shock....Not!! Lynn Hormone Therapy Skews Diagnosis Posted 1 hour, 33 minutes ago in Science & Health Source: Associated Press (newser) – Women who use hormone replacement therapy to combat menopause symptoms are more likely to get false mammogram results and have unneeded biopsies, new research shows. The UCLA analysis of an earlier study of more than 16,000 women found that 35% of those on hormones received skewed test results, as opposed to 23% of women on a placebo, Reuters reports. • Hormone treatment not only produces more false positives, it interferes with detection of malignancies in mammograms and biopsies, researchers found. " This is really definitive evidence that hormones interfere with breast cancer diagnosis, " a researcher told the San Francisco Chronicle. One in 1,000 hormone replacement patients will get breast cancer, one in 10 will get an abnormal mammogram, and one in 25 will have an avoidable biopsy, she said. Sources: Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 It never made sense to poke a hole in a tumor to take out a piece for diagnosis... Wouldn't that make the tumor spread faster if it were cancer?! Sincerely Barb M. ---- Lynn Ward 2/26/2008 2:30:48 PM Hormone Therapy Skews Diagnosis Such a shock....Not!! LynnHormone Therapy Skews Diagnosis Posted 1 hour, 33 minutes ago in Science & Health Source: Associated Press (newser) – Women who use hormone replacement therapy to combat menopause symptoms are more likely to get false mammogram results and have unneeded biopsies, new research shows. The UCLA analysis of an earlier study of more than 16,000 women found that 35% of those on hormones received skewed test results, as opposed to 23% of women on a placebo, Reuters reports. • Hormone treatment not only produces more false positives, it interferes with detection of malignancies in mammograms and biopsies, researchers found. "This is really definitive evidence that hormones interfere with breast cancer diagnosis," a researcher told the San Francisco Chronicle. One in 1,000 hormone replacement patients will get breast cancer, one in 10 will get an abnormal mammogram, and one in 25 will have an avoidable biopsy, she said. Sources: Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 At 02:55 PM 2/26/2008, you wrote: Me neither, although it's done all the time. Have always had questions about mammograms too.... Seems to me, depending on what is there, the likelihood of squishing or breaking something is good, considering the amount of pressure required to get a picture. Still can't believe, after all these years, that is the best and most common way to find out if one has tumor or cyst....true, they'll do an ultra-sound if something is hinky, but it's not the first option. Insurance doesn't want to pay for it unless the mammogram is questionable in some way, or unless one can't a decent mammogram. My time is coming up again, and I just wish there was a better way. Lynn It never made sense to poke a hole in a tumor to take out a piece for diagnosis... Wouldn't that make the tumor spread faster if it were cancer?! Sincerely Barb M. ---- Lynn Ward 2/26/2008 2:30:48 PM To: Hormone Therapy Skews Diagnosis Such a shock....Not!! Lynn Hormone Therapy Skews Diagnosis Posted 1 hour, 33 minutes ago in Science & Health Source: Associated Press (newser) – Women who use hormone replacement therapy to combat menopause symptoms are more likely to get false mammogram results and have unneeded biopsies, new research shows. The UCLA analysis of an earlier study of more than 16,000 women found that 35% of those on hormones received skewed test results, as opposed to 23% of women on a placebo, Reuters reports. • Hormone treatment not only produces more false positives, it interferes with detection of malignancies in mammograms and biopsies, researchers found. " This is really definitive evidence that hormones interfere with breast cancer diagnosis, " a researcher told the San Francisco Chronicle. One in 1,000 hormone replacement patients will get breast cancer, one in 10 will get an abnormal mammogram, and one in 25 will have an avoidable biopsy, she said. Sources: Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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