Guideline controversy: 'Politics is always intruding into the world of breast cancer'

Kaiser Health News' Peggy Girshman talks with Dr. Barron Lerner about the politics surrounding the recent release of mammography guidelines. "This is not the first time that breast cancer has become a big political issue, according to Dr. Barron Lerner, associate professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and author of 'The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America'" (Kaiser Health News, 11/20). Read entire interview.

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