Donald R. Lannin, MD, department of surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, coauthor with Shiyi Wang, MD, PhD, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, both in Connecticut, of a special report titled “Are Small Breast Cancers Good because They Are Small or Small because They Are Good?” published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
"Catch cancer early" has been a medical catchphrase for generations. But many breast cancer tumors detected by mammography aren't very dangerous.
