Title : Screening Recommendations Based on Doctor Personal Experiences
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Screening Recommendations Based on Doctor Personal Experiences
Recently in JAMA, "...a research letter... explores how social interactions with friends, family and colleagues who have been diagnosed with breast cancer may affect a physician’s recommendations to patients."What it found was that a doctor's personal experiences impact what they recommend for their patients. They did not necessarily follow the current guidelines.
"Physicians familiar with someone with a poor prognosis who was not diagnosed via screening were much more likely to recommend routine checks for women between 40 and 44 years old and those over 75."
“Describing a woman whose breast cancer was not diagnosed by screening mammogram and who had a poor prognosis was associated with increased odds of recommending routine screening to patients within the designated younger and older age groups for which guidelines no longer support routine, universal screening,” Pollack et al. wrote."
“Describing a woman whose breast cancer was not diagnosed by screening mammogram and who had a poor prognosis was associated with increased odds of recommending routine screening to patients within the designated younger and older age groups for which guidelines no longer support routine, universal screening,” Pollack et al. wrote."
In my personal experience, my rheumatologist has been very hesitant to prescribe a biologic, such as Humira or Enbrel, for my rheumatoid arthritis. It is standard not to prescribe them to anyone who has been diagnosed with any cancer in the past five years because there is a TNF (Tumor Necrosing Factor) in them.
Although I am more than ten years out from breast cancer and over 30 years out from thyroid cancer that translates to two cancer diagnoses before the age of 50. So she has been very hesitant. She even has conferred with my oncologist on this. Finally she has prescribed me Orencia which I have just started.
And the truth came out. At a recent appointment she told me that she had a patient who had had cancer and was over five years out from her diagnosis. My rheumatologist put her on a biologic for her RA and then she had a cancer recurrence. Who knows if the two were connected but that has had an impact on my rheumatologist. And she doesn't want to have this happen to any more of her patients.
“Our results suggest that helping clinicians reflect on how their experiences influence their current screening patterns may be an important approach to improve adherence to revised breast cancer screening guidelines.”
From a patient's point of view, I want impartial treatment for all my ailments. But there is so my crossover and overlap between them that discussions are often required. Due to my medical history, I have 'received' more screenings (a/k/a medical misadventures) than anyone else I know. I want the doctors to bend the guidelines to help me as best as possible.
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