Mammograms at 50: A Female Doctor Speaks Out

My father was a radiology doctor who specialized in mammograms, so I grew up around those machines that take two perfectly good knockers and squash them into Swedish pancakes. Dad used to joke that if women were in charge of medicine, men would have to stick their penises between two plates and get “manograms” after [...]

Five Things You Should Know About Breast Cancer

Your Lifetime Risk Of Cancer (What The Hell Does that MEAN?)
We all hear the scary statistics- one in eight women will get breast cancer in her lifetime. Which is true, but misleading. So what does it mean?  Yes, the lifetime probability of developing invasive breast cancer (the kind that can getting into your lymph nodes [...]