Doctors are surprisingly bad at understanding the science of probability
Dr Daniel Morgan, (an associate professor of epidemiology, public health and infectious diseases at the University of Maryland School of Medicine) has found in his research that many physicians misunderstand test results or think tests are more accurate than they are. Doctors especially fail to grasp how false positives work, which means they make crucial…
Read MoreThe Difficulties of Diagnosing Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Dr Kathy D. Miller of Indianan University explains in this video the difficulty in diagnosing inflammatory breast cancer. Dr. Miller describes a common scenario among doctors diagnosing inflammatory breast cancer. Currently there is no clear answer, as the quote below describes a patients symptoms and the varying opinions of the team of doctors. “The patient…
Read MoreThe Value of Molecular Diagnostics
To better understand the technology that BreastDefense is using, a report byAdvaMedDxgives is a very good overview of the molecular diagnostic field. “The introduction and expanding use of molecular diagnostic tests to detect cancer and manage cancer care mark a major milestone and herald future progress in the fight against this disease – begins thereportbyAdvaMedDxa…
Read MoreBreast Biopsies – are not always accurate
The video The Pathology of Errors is about the consequences of a inaccurateimage reading. Since treatment is based on the diagnosis of the pathologists report, it is critical that the diagnosis is correct. It is now recommended that women seek second opinions when given a diagnosis of breast cancer. This video is a good overview…
Read More40 over 40
40% of Women Over 40 Have Dense Breasts. Why does this matter? Fact the denser the breast the higher the risk of getting breast cancer. Fact having dense breasts is a greater risk factor than having a family history of breast cancer. Fact mammograms miss about 50% of breast cancer in the densest breasts. The…
Read MoreYoung Women with Breast Cancer – The Forgotten Generation?
Are young women a forgotten generation when it comes to breast cancer? Thousands of young women are diagnosed every year. They often face the most aggressive cancers. One young Canadian women, profiled in Rachel Ray Everyday shared her story. Judit Saunders was 26 years old andworking as a registered nurse at a major children’s hospital…
Read MoreFrom Bench to Bedside – BreastDefense and Translational Medicine
Translational research is generally considered a process that starts in the lab–the “bench”–where a new drug, device, or procedure is developed, and ends with the production that makes it available in the clinic–the “bedside.” Barry S. Coller from the Rockefeller University, NY defines translational medicine as: “The application of the scientific method to address a…
Read MoreMany Women Could Be Spared Chemotherapy
The largest precision medicine study ever done was presented at a plenary session at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. Researchers looked at more than 10,000 women aged 18-75. Researchers were looking at whether the standard of care of chemotherapy and endocrine therapy benefit all women with the…
Read MoreWhat do Dogs and BreastDefense have in Common?
Some biologists think that a target of 99% accuracy for any cancer screen is unattainable. It seems that SignPost is not alone in this pursuit. According to a company called BioScent Dx, dogs are able to smell minute changes in a human bio-markers including hormones, proteins and other organic compounds. This has lead to dogs…
Read MoreThe Sharks and The Minnows
The wide net of cancer detection is picking up the Sharks – the aggressive tumors – and the Minnows- the non-aggressive tumors. “We are not seeing enough of the really lethal cancers, and we’re finding too many of the slow moving ones that probably don’t need to be found” says Laura Esserman, a breast cancer…
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