"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Never Mind.... Experts now think the data on genes and breast cancer exaggerated the individual risk of breast cancer in women with certain genetic mutations. It’s all the more unfortunate because some women elected to have prophylactic mastectomies based on an estimated risk of cancer of 80%. Turns out the risk may be as low as 20%. Truth is, no one really knows the risk. When we will ever learn? We continue to take these studies at face value rather than scrutinizing their methods and their results before applying them to real life. Doesn't do much to foster trust in conventional, "evidence-based" medicine, does it? posted by Sydney on
8/22/2002 06:11:00 AM
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