Between the Susan G. Komen-Planned Parenthood debate and the study on treatments released by the Journal of the American Medical Association recently, breast cancer has certainly gotten a lot of play in the media as of late.
Every major news outlet in America covered the breast cancer study released by JAMA which said that nearly half of the women who had second surgeries for breast cancer may not have needed the operation. Taken on face value, this statistic is misleading and could drive women with breast cancer away from the health systems that can help them the most.
