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  • Behind the Cover Story

    Posted 4/30/2013 by hhill
      This is a companion or follow up piece to the blog of Anpril 25th which linked to Peggy Orenstein's marvelous work about screening and mammograms and pink ribbons. Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of reaction to that cover story in the New York Times Magazine. I am on the Board of several professional groups that wish to write letters of dispute with her facts. There are always ways and other ways of looking at the data, but surely her essay is thoughtful and provocative and forces us to examine our assumptions. Read more... Comments (0)

  • Mammograms and Early Detection and PInk Ribbons

    Posted 4/25/2013 by hhill
      As many of you know, I can never pass up an opportunity to be critical of the Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer World. It offends me in all manner of ways, but one of the central ones is the absolute hypocrisy of many sponsors, and the misinformation that is foisted onto the world. "Early detection and you will be cured" is the message, and that is just not necessarily true. This all ties into the controversy about screening, most specifically about the value of mammograms. Read more... Comments (1)

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Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW, OSW-C is the Manager of Oncology Social Work at BIDMC. For more than thirty years, her daily work at BIDMC has been primarily focused on supporting women with breast cancer. A nationally known writer and speaker, she was the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's first Hatcher Survivorship Professor. In 1993, and again in 2005, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and went through the standard treatments of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal therapy. These experiences have given her great credibility with her patients and transformed her life's work to her life. Ms. Schnipper lives gratefully with her husband in an ancient farmhouse outside of Boston and spends as much time as possible in a water front cottage on Mt Desert Island. Between them, they have five adult children and seven grandchildren; she claims biological responsibility for two and three of them.

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