'Was Canada right to change its breast screening guidelines? No' https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/thebigdebate/2019/03/12/was-canada-right-to-change-its-breast-screening-guidelines-no.html … New g'lines issued w/out involvement of an expert in breast diagnosis/treatment. Panel involved family doctors, nurses, a chiro, an occupational therapist & a nephrologist. @gorskon #SinghBCA
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My response to this is not what, I suspect, you thought it would be.
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I was surprised to see a chiro and an occupational therapist on the panel, but I do know that many screenings are controversial via
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Obviously I do not approve of a chiropractor being on such a panel—EVER. That being said, overdiagnosis is a real phenomenon mammographers often downplay or deny. Their estimates for mammographic overdiagnosis are considerably lower than estimates from other screening experts.
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