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Excellent summary of breast cancer recommendations

Jennifer P. Young
Canadian Family Physician March 2021; 67 (3) 157-159; DOI: https://doi.org/10.46747/cfp.6703157_1
Jennifer P. Young
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Your messaging in the January issue of Canadian Family Physician is great1; we should have a shared decision-making discussion with our patients about mammogram screening. Dr Ed Kucharski, I see that you are Regional Primary Care Cancer Screening Lead at Ontario Health–Cancer Care Ontario. It has concerned me that the messaging from Cancer Care Ontario regarding breast cancer screening has been “get your mammogram” rather than “discuss with your primary care provider.” Dr Elizabeth Del Giudice, I note you are from Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Ont, and there was just a full-page advertisement in The Globe and Mail from the Louise Temerty Breast Cancer Centre in Sunnybrook Hospital entitled, “Are you walking around with undetected cancer?”

I know how challenging it is to change the narrative here, but I would really like to see Cancer Care Ontario’s messaging changed at the very least. Any thoughts on this?

In addition, the “conditional recommendation” is not explained and we do not come across it that often in the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation system.

Finally, the recommendation to screen high-risk patients with colonoscopy is certainly what everyone is doing, but it is not what the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommends2; they state, “We recommend not using colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer. (Weak recommendation; low-quality evidence).”

Thanks for this summary; it highlights the key issues!

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    2. Del Giudice ME,
    3. Kucharski E.
    Cancer screening in Canada. What’s in, what’s out, what’s coming. Can Fam Physician 2021;67:27-9 (Eng), e12-4 (Fr).
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    1. Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
    . Recommendations on screening for colorectal cancer in primary care. CMAJ 2016;188(5):340-8. Epub 2016 Feb 22. Available from: https://www.cmaj.ca/content/cmaj/188/5/340.full.pdf. Accessed 2021 Feb 17.
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