About this episode

Dr. Jenn Simmons critiques Peter Attia's views on breast cancer screening and presents evidence against the effectiveness of increased mammograms and MRIs.

In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons responds to Peter Attia's breast cancer screening episode (#396). Attia asks the right question: why are 42,000 women still dying of breast cancer every year? But his answer, more mammograms and MRI on top, is exactly wrong. Dr. Jenn breaks down, study by study, why that 40-year approach has never moved the death toll. Forty-two thousand women a year. That number has not moved since mammography went mainstream in the 1980s. Detection rates...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Jenn Simmons

Topics covered

• breast cancer screening
• mammograms
• healthcare
• medical studies
• cancer detection

Keywords

• breast cancer
• screening
• mammograms
• MRI
• health statistics
• cancer mortality
• medical evidence

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