Cervical Smears Did you know they’re not actually necessary for most people? The painful but I mean. The first step in a cervical cancer check is to look for active HPV virus 🦠 This can be done at home, with a simple swab - no invasive procedure. You can buy test kits online.

📣 Smash a Melon, NOT My Boob! is a social media challenge questioning the status quo of breast cancer screening. 🍈 Join us in the Smash a Melon! It’s time to smash the myths, not the women. #SmashAMelon 💥 Learn more at linktr.ee/smashamelon

Thousands of men could avoid unnecessary treatment for prostate cancer by not having the PSA test in the first place without any risk to their life. Challenge me and I will provide the data.

A new study shows that a self-collected #cervicalcancer screening device is highly accurate, easy to use, and preferred over clinician collection. hubs.li/Q03pmh_00

More women lose a breast when they go to screening than if not. And they don’t live longer. So dear women, skip screening and leave your breasts where they are. This was a draft frontpage for my freely available 2024 book I didn’t use. The British use cups to cover the butter.

And about time. Now @NHSEngland needs to pay attention.

Women with in-depth understanding of harms of overdiagnosis & overRx confidently decline breast screening & it adds to their dissatisfaction with the way NHSBSP present info. Good. Stop bullying us! @mgtmccartney @BreastCancerNow @trishgreenhalgh @pash22 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1…

Screening: do strong a priori beliefs outweigh facts? In a survey, 83% of women aged 40-49 would take part in a hypothetical mammography screening programme. This is despite being told there were no benefits & potential harms. Many disbelieved the information provided

Do we understand benefits and harms of medical screening? Information material focusing on informed choice, when invited to cervical cancer screening ebm.bmj.com/content/24/Suppl…

Except mammography actually has no evidence it increases life span, improves overall survival. In fact even the RCTs showing cause specific survival benefits are essentially out of date. Totally reasonable to decline mammography.

Excellent article reviewing all the issues around cancer screening by @NicolaOralmed mdpi.com/2935958 #mdpicurroncol via @CurrentOncology

Mammography screening: The greatest hoax. Read the update of my 2012 book for free: bit.ly/3Cvobip Breast screening has been sold to the public with the message that it saves lives and breasts. It does neither. Mammography screening is harmful and should be stopped.

First, they scammed you on skin cancer when the sun is good for you. Now, they're scamming you again with mammograms. It turns out that this diagnostic procedure exposes women's breasts to a type of radiation that's known to CAUSE cancer. Here's the worst part. We now know that over the past 30 years, 1.3 million women have been misdiagnosed with breast cancer that actually had no chance of causing harm. So, they were put on the treadmill, generating huge profits for Big Pharma and hospitals while being deceived into believing that the medical system had "saved" them from cancer—all while draining their wallets. Sayer Ji calls it “like a Stockholm syndrome.” “Millions of people march in these breast cancer awareness marches, not realizing that it's funded by the very corporations that make money off the drugs used to treat breast cancer.” Uncover more truths about cancer in the comment below 👇

Many papers compare breast cancer mortality in attenders versus non-attenders to breast screening and claim large benefits. We show the correlation is likely due to self-selection bias and the design should not be used. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Bottom line: Screening for breast cancer does not save lives and does not save breasts. That's easy enough to remember!

Great news but few talking about stopping (the now) unnecessary & relatively more harmful screening (except for the unvaccinated). We have to stop 'doing things' that dont 'work' or have stopped 'working'! thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Given NHSBSP costs so much to not cut overall mortality, increase mastectomy, create 10ks of unnecessary - but grateful - patients with 'cancer (that isn't harmful)' & wastes our time, why offer it? @healthsense @mgtmccartney @MichaelBaum11 @_CancerRose academic.oup.com/eurpub/adva…

It's even worse than this. Cochrane shows no reduction in all cause mortality in pooled analysis of all trials at any age. Welch papers show massive over diagnosis. Astonishing we spend so much money on something so unproven.

Worthy of reposting every year and even every day…

Harmful consequences of #overdiagnosis