More medicine isn't better
kevinmd.com     May 16, 2008          

Predictable:New techniques for detecting breast cancer may be leading more women to have their entire breast removed . . .. . . one possible explanation is that magnetic resonance imaging, which is relatively new, detects more possibly cancerous growths than does mammography. That could be... [read full story]                

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