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[Chickendoodle]

New figures today have suggested there is a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer. The Daily Mail has printed this article in their usual scaremongering fashion

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1353474/Breast-Cancer-1-8-women-lifestyle-blamed-huge-rise.html

 

If you read further down the article the actual incidence is 124 people in 100,000 which is definitely not 1 in 8 people. As I understand it the 1 in 8 means that each person has a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer NOT that 1 in 8 people will get it. Totally different things.

 

Why don't newspapers employ people who have a modicum of understanding of statistics and stop scaring the public

[Old Speckled Hen]

 

Why don't newspapers employ people who have a modicum of understanding of statistics and stop scaring the public

 

That's the point. They employ people who know how to sensationalise and they do it well.

My mother can sit all day tutting over her copy of The Mail. She has long since learned not to actually tell me what she is tutting about

[Chickendoodle]

It's like saying that each time you cross the road you have a 1 in 2 or 50/50 chance of getting run over. This does not mean that every second person WILL get run over.

 

Makes me so cross that people will be hugely worried by this article

[Geoid]

Its the Daily Mail, what did you expect

[clootie]

Its the Daily Mail, what did you expect

 

 

Is your page turning thumb on the mend now Fred?

[Old Speckled Hen]

Not just The Mail either.........I spotted The Express which devoted the whole front page to the same interpretation

[Alis girls]

I agree it is alarming esp when you have it in the family. They are now calling women from 47 yrs of age for mammograms instead of 50plus - mines come thro for the end of Feb. I had one some yrs back - quite sore but very necessary.

[Cinnamon]

They have been quoting the 1 in 8 figures on the news all day too

[Alis girls]

I meant to add its time the UK woke up to the fact many women younger than 50 get it - we have lost one mum at school to it and another thankfully is in remission. Other parts of Europe scan earlier - thank goodness the Uk has started to.

[bluekarin]

I meant to add its time the UK woke up to the fact many women younger than 50 get it - we have lost one mum at school to it and another thankfully is in remission. Other parts of Europe scan earlier - thank goodness the Uk has started to.

One of my sons friends mum died of it nearly three years ago and she was late 30's/early 40's. My cousin is having treatment for it and she is 37.

[stoice]

Hope my friend doesn't read the Daily Mail. She had a mastectomy and reconstruction on her 30th birthday last month.

[Cinnamon]

I don't much care if it is scaremongering.

 

If it causes one woman to check her breasts,find a problem,get treated and survive,its fine by me.

[ubereglu]

There was a very good piece on BBC Radio 4's Woman's hour yesterday morning, which may help clear up any confusion.

[Treekeeper]

Not just women who get breast cancer. I have had a mastectomy to remove a large tumour which luckily turned out to be benign but still had to have the scans etc not easy getting a blokes 'boob' in a mammogram clamp! I personally think women should be scanned from 40 yrs old not 50. It's such a scarey thing to happen I had nights without sleep and all the what if it is thoughts, so if it stops any one male or female going through the ops because it's caught sooner then I am all for it. Sorry for the ramble but it's still emotive even several years on for me.

[sadietoo]

Speaking as someone who lost her cousin and friend to breast cancer (both aged 41 ) I have just seen another friend come through treatment for it, and it all looks good so far....

 

I can only say that we all feel impotent against this disease, but the survival rates are encouraging...if you don't already sponsor someone to Walk the Walk ...do so now...and maybe challenge yourselves to do it next year...it's the least we can do..