Fun With Randomized Trials, and Breasts

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The Cochrane Collaboration has created something of a stir with its latest review on the advisability of doing breast self-examinations, which concluded, in essence, that they’re not advisable. Specifically, they found that women who perform breast self-examinations end up producing more harm than good, so women should be discouraged from [...]