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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Handel E. ReynoldsPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: ILR Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801450938ISBN 10: 0801450934 Pages: 136 Publication Date: 12 July 2012 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Mammography Story 1. Timing Is Everything 2. First Exposure 3. The Aftermath 4. A Tale of Two Epidemics 5. Age Is Nothing but a Number 6. Pulling the Plug on Granny 7. The House that Mammography Built 8. Overdiagnosis: Mammography's Burden Notes IndexReviews<p> The Big Squeeze is first class. Dr. Handel Reynolds describes the controversy over mammography in a careful, objective fashion. He avoids polemical descriptions and shares with readers the information currently available about the benefits and risks of mammography. -Jerome Kassirer, MD, Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine, author of On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health The Big Squeeze is a terrific book: a history of screening mammography that is interesting, important, timely and controversial. The book is short, fast moving, and balanced (although, in this day of polarized opinions, balance is often perceived only through the eyes of the beholder). It will be of particular interest to women, physicians, and perhaps politicians. Dr. Handel Reynolds interweaves scientific, social, political, emotional and economic issues, many of which are peculiar to breast cancer. Much of the confusion and controversy regarding screening mammography resolves around age and timing: when to begin and how often. Physicians, statisticians, politicians, and patients from around the world, each using the same data, have come up with different recommendations for breast screening. Dr. Reynolds takes us on this roller-coaster ride and his conclusions are that annual screening mammography, starting at age 40, does save lives, but . . . Ferris M. Hall, MD, FACR, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School Author InformationThe late Handel Reynolds MD was a breast radiologist in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, and former Chief of Breast Radiology at Indiana University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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