The Post article on the overdiagnosis of cancer clearly reported the need to reduce patients’ fear and confusion about “cancers” that many experts now agree are not really cancer, because they don’t spread and aren’t harmful. The major obstacle has been uncertainty about how likely these conditions are to predict cancer or change into an invasive cancer in the future.
NBC4 Washington, June 13, 2013. Diana Zuckerman with the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund said parents had good reason to be concerned about rubber mulch. “Rubber mulch contains phthalates, which are chemicals that affect hormones, and other chemicals that are known to be harmful to our health,” Zuckerman said.
Washington Post. May 23, 2013. Public health and consumer advocacy groups are attacking Senate legislation designed to tighten oversight of specialized pharmacies such as the one at the center of this past fall’s deadly meningitis outbreak, saying it does not adequately address health risks.
Did Angelina Jolie make the right decision? And should that influence other women? Our president Dr. Diana Zuckerman explains why Angelina’s risk of breast cancer is lower than she was told and what the implications are for you.
The Office of the Inspector General has issued a special fraud alert, warning patients about doctors who also own businesses that sell medical devices that those physicians may then implant in their patients.
Huffington Post. August 14, 2012. Endocrine disrupting chemicals such as BPA have been linked to breast and prostate cancers. “The impact on the developing fetus and young children, and on breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, are of particular concern to us. One study indicates that BPA may interfere with the effectiveness of chemo for breast cancer patients,” said Diana Zuckerman, president of the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund.