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149: Peter Attia Got Breast Cancer Screening Wrong, and Here's the Evidence
149: Peter Attia Got Breast Cancer Screening Wrong, and Here's the Evidence
In this episode of Keeping Abreast, Dr. Jenn Simmons responds to Peter Attia's breast cancer screening episode (#396). Attia asks the right question: why are 42,000 women still dying of breast cancer every year? But his answer, more mammograms and MRI on top, is exactly wrong. Dr. Jenn breaks down, study by study, why that 40-year approach has never moved the death toll. Forty-two thousand women a year. That number has not moved since mammography went mainstream in the 1980s. Detection rates...