Dr Mara Schonberg does an excellent job of presenting the pros and cons of continued breast cancer screening in elderly women and of explaining why the current guidelines are vague. My purpose here is not to take issue with anything that she presented, but to make some additional points in favor of continuing breast cancer screening into a woman's "golden" years.
Michael F. Holick, MD, PhD, the Boston University professor of medicine and well-known “apostle of vitamin D,” attracted a standing-room-only crowd Friday for a presentation on his favorite topic. It was a performance that had the audience at rapt attention for a full hour-not just because of the celebrity of the speaker, but because of the extraordinarily clever and engaging nature of his presentation.
