The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
while any patient who gets breast radiation will be counseled as part of the um um a decision-making process that there is a risk of accelerated coronary disease in modern contemporary practice that risk is incredibly low and not just do they set up the fields differently but now there are a lot of other tricks including specific blocks that radiation doctors can use and what's called a breath holding technique where they synchronize the radiation treatment to holding the breath
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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the issue of left and right what you're alluding to is the historic experience which is that radiation therapy to left-sided breast cancers in the past important point was associated with a greater risk of coronary artery disease and that is because in the early days of breast radiation they would um radiate the breast sort of straight on if you will as though an arrow was like someone was standing in front of you shooting an arrow right at your heart and that's where the beam of radiation was going nowadays and for the past 18 to 20 years or more actually 30 years almost now we don't do that
Whole-body MRI screening in healthy adults produces more incidentaloma harm than cancer-mortality benefit.
Starting colonoscopy screening at 45 (vs 50) prevents enough early-onset cancers to justify the population cost.
Multi-cancer liquid-biopsy tests like Galleri detect early cancers at a stage that meaningfully improves survival.