{"id":4149,"date":"2015-06-26T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T21:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2015-06-26T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T21:57:32","slug":"unnecessary-imaging-common-among-breast-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/unnecessary-imaging-common-among-breast-cancer-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary imaging common among breast cancer patients<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are given imaging tests to look for distant growths, despite official guidelines according to a new study. The research team found that over 79 per cent of women with stage I breast cancer, and over 92 per cent with stage II, received imaging tests despite having\u00a0a\u00a0less than two per cent risk for developing distant metastases.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers studied data from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences as well as the Ontario Cancer Registry between 2007 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>They believe imaging tests are being overused in stage I and II breast cancer patients due to a combination of uncertainty regarding guidelines from physicians as well as patient-related factors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2015\/06\/22\/cmaj.150003\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>CMAJ\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 22<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Mark Clemons, \u00a0Division of Medical Oncology, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, &amp; University of Ottawa, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are given imaging tests to look for distant growths, despite official guidelines according to a new study. The research team found that over 79 per cent of women with stage I breast cancer, and over 92 per cent with stage II, received imaging tests despite having\u00a0a\u00a0less than two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2092,49,51,53,50],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-14V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}