Renaming DCIS & Active Surveillance
- What’s in a name? Why we need to reconsider the word cancer – The Conversation
- NIH Consensus Conference Urges: Defuse Fears of DCIS – Oncology Times
- Watchful waiting for ductal carcinoma in situ – Springer
- DCIS: should we stop calling it “breast cancer”? – Voice Media
- Should low-risk DCIS lose the cancer label? – PMC
- Renaming Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: Would Removing “Carcinoma” Reduce Overtreatment? – JNCCN
- Take Carcinoma Out of DCIS and Ease Off Treatment – Medscape
- Ductal carcinoma in situ: to treat or not to treat – Nature
- Cancer outcomes in women without upfront surgery for DCIS – PubMed
- A morphometric signature to identify ductal carcinoma in situ with a low risk of progression – Nature
General Critique of Mammography / Screening Articles
- Patients deserve the truth: health screening can do more harm than good – The Guardian
- Routine mammograms don’t save lives: the research is clear – The Conversation
- Breast cancer screening programme ‘does more harm than good’ – BBC
- Mammography screening: a major issue in medicine – European Journal of Cancer
- Mammography screening is harmful and should be abandoned – JRSM
- Mammography Screening Is a Failed Experiment – John Horgan
- Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer – NY Times Magazine
- Is October Breast Cancer “Awareness” or “Industry” Month? – McDougall
- What If Everything Your Doctors Told You About Breast Cancer Was Wrong? – Mother Jones
Do Mammograms Save Lives?
- The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review – PMC
- Likelihood that a woman with screen-detected breast cancer has had her “life saved” – PubMed
- Women’s Acceptance of Overdetection in Breast Cancer Screening – SAGE
- Mammography Doesn’t Come Without Risk – LA Times
- National Expenditure For False-Positive Mammograms And Overdiagnoses – Health Affairs
- Breast Cancer Screening: Let Evidence Trump Fear – Health Affairs
- Breast-Cancer Tumor Size, Overdiagnosis, and Mammography Screening Effectiveness – NEJM
- Breast cancer incidence as a function of the number of previous mammograms – bioRxiv
- Mammography for Breast Cancer Screening: Harm/Benefit Analysis – NBCC
- The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) Breast Cancer Facts & Figures 2025
Radiation Risk & Treatment Harms
- Preventing Breast Cancer – Gofman
- Harms from breast cancer screening outweigh benefits if death caused by treatment is included – BMJ
- Postoperative radiotherapy and late mortality – BMJ
Informed Consent, Ethics & Communication
- Informed Consent – NCBI
- Communication Between Patients and Providers and Informed Decision Making – JNCI
- It is not wrong to say no: Why are women told only the benefits of breast screening and none of the possible harms? – BMJ
- Supporting Informed Choice Before Screening Mammography Is the Only Ethical Option – AJR
- Four Principles to Consider Before Advising Women on Screening Mammography – Journal of Women’s Health
- The Ethics of Screening Mammography – Sensible Med
- Mammograms have pros and cons. Women can handle the nuance, study argues – NPR
- Risk literacy: Gerd Gigerenzer TEDx talk
Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis & Overtreatment
- Perspective: The risks of overdiagnosis – Nature
- Overdiagnosis: causes and consequences in primary health care – PMC
- Improving Quality by Doing Less: Overdiagnosis – AAFP
- Effect of Three Decades of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Incidence – NEJM
- Overdiagnosis in Cancer – JNCI
- Cancer overdiagnosis: a biological challenge and clinical dilemma – PubMed
- Overdiagnosis in publicly organised mammography screening programmes – BMJ
- Overdiagnosis in mammography screening: a 45 year journey – BMJ
- Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Breast Cancer – ASCO
- What is Overdiagnosis? – Wiser Healthcare
- Overdiagnosis: when finding cancer can do more harm than good – Cancer Research UK
- Overdiagnosis and Preventative Screening: Q&A With Ilana Richman – Yale Medicine
- The growing case for doing less – Fortune