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Media articles of interest:
Obesity / Ovarian cancer article: http://tinyurl.com/9ak8st
McHealth stories: http://tinyurl.com/7xmwsf
My online response: http://tinyurl.com/9554b6
(S Pniauskas, from Canada) wrote:
A prime example of the ethical, moral and professional duty of apparent
medical reporting is Andre's recent article: "Obesity raises risk of
ovarian cancer".
In fact, the paper Body Mass Index and Risk of Ovarian Cancer (2009
American Cancer Society/Cancer Journal) as published:
"Conclusions: Based on the results of the current study, the authors
SUSPECT that obesity....As observed in numerous previous investigations
summarized in a recent meta-analysis of the available literature, BMI at
baseline was associated with a modest but statistically NONSIGNIFICANT
INCREASE IN RISK for ovarian cancer in our cohort as a whole... "
The whole article in the Globe regarding Obesity and Risk of Ovarian
Cancer is significantly pathetic including the fact that the last
sentence regarding risk of recurrence/higher rate of death is not
accurate. What is accurate is the fact that if chemotherapy treatments
are given according to BMI then the risk is Nil.
Ovarian Cancer and most cancers cannot simply be explained away by
simple one page articles and to try to do so places additional burdens
on our populations which are in fact fighting for and often losing the
challenge of trying to live with life threatening cancers. Research
communities publish their work as a 'work in progress' and not as the
final solution to extremely complicated issues. Many factors influence
the onset and risk of ovarian and other cancers and we simply are not
there yet in understanding the full implications of any particular one
or two potential issues.
It is an old lesson yet learned that medical reporting has a duty to
understand the full context of the issues, as well as a duty to do no
harm, which is not exclusively held to medical professionals but to also
to medical reporting.
There are educational courses available to medical journalists and
consumers, one being through the Cochrane Collaboration.
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