Priorities in Breast-Cancer Detection

EVERY physician deplores the fact that the survival statistics for breast cancer continue to be stalemated while those for cancer at other sites improve. Yet the sobering reality is that the medical profession itself is not doing its utmost to improve matters.For example, we urge women to examine their own breasts and report at once if they find anything unusual. Self-examination is not to be decried, but in advocating this approach, we are, in effect, making the woman responsible for discovering her own cancer — which she does in about 95 per cent of cases. Too often, however, a . . .