Dr. Bruce Feinberg Interviewed on Fox 5 About New Mammogram Guidelines
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Dr. Bruce Feinberg, president and CEO of Georgia Cancer Specialists (GCS), was interviewed by Denise Dillon on Fox 5’s 10 p.m. broadcast Monday, November 16, in a story about newly released breast cancer screening guidelines.
The recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force advise women to begin getting mammograms at age 50 instead of 40, and to have them every other year instead of annually. It also discourages physicians from teaching women to do breast self-exams.
The government task force of doctors and scientists concluded that getting screened for breast cancer as early as 40 along with the previously recommended frequency (annually) leads to too many false alarms and unnecessary biopsies without substantially improving women's odds of survival.
Dr. Feinberg was introduced as the president of GCS and the author of Breast Cancer Answers. He was interviewed for his opinion on the task force’s recommendations.
“If the notion is that you’re going to find more false positives than true positives,” said Dr. Feinberg, “ then let’s educate women more about what a true positive is, rather than saying ‘don’t do it at all.’”
Dr. Feinberg was interviewed for approximately one minute. Watch the interview here:
In addition to Breast Cancer Answers, Dr. Feinberg is the author of Colon Cancer Answers. He was recently named a Top Doctor by Consumers’ Checkbook in the third edition of Consumers’ Guide to Top Doctors, a respected medical reference publication. Dr. Feinberg practices at the GCS Stemmer office in Decatur and the GCS Rockdale office in Conyers.
Georgia Cancer Specialists is the largest private medical oncology/hematology practice in the Southeast and a leader in advanced cancer treatment and research. The practice offers community-based medical oncology and hematology services and is the first private oncology practice to also provide a full range of support services for patients in Georgia, including nutritional counseling, pain management, wellness counseling, and home health coordination. The GCS research department, whose focus is bringing targeted cancer therapy to communities, is the first in Georgia to offer Phase I clinical trials, the most novel cancer therapies available. GCS has 30 offices, 42 physicians, and more than 480 support staff members located in Metro Atlanta, North and Central Georgia, Southeast Tennessee, and Southwest North Carolina, and provides care through approximately 205,000 annual patient visits. Georgia Cancer Specialists can be found on the web at www.gacancer.com. GCS is The Cancer Answer.
