Breast Cancer

Medical advice to women contradictory, confusing

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 5th, 2002

Call it the year of mixed messages: first came debate about mammography's value, then the news that long-term use of the hormones estrogen and progestin raise the risk of breast cancer and heart attacks after all.

Now more headlines, declaring that checking breasts for cancerous lumps once a month doesn't do much good, have some cancer patients and health care providers irate - and telling women to ignore the news and keep on checking.

"I'm on a rampage about the whole thing," said Sherry Goldman, a nurse practitioner who teaches breast self-examination at the University of California, Los Angeles, and who last year found a tiny cancerous lump in her...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-11-05)

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