Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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first heard Jul 2026
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But if we could test that particular kind of inflammation, we would have a biomarker, we would have a marker for future cancer and potentially even prevent it, potentially by stopping that inflammation.
Do you think we will find a prevention in your lifetime?
I think we will find a prevention in my lifetime.
Yes, it may not work 100%, but as I said, it is my Moby Dick and I will hunt it.
Me and Moby are going to be at it.
Absolutely.
And as you can imagine, I mean, these are often, you know, young women with families.
They have children to think about.
They have future fertility to think about, as Ms.
Munn did.
And so...
the decision becomes not just, you know, about yourself, it becomes about your family.
Well, so the problem with mammograms is that the yield to discover a real cancer is very low, especially in young women.
And that's complicated, of course, by women who have young breasts.
By yield, I mean there's a number, which is how many mammograms you need to take in order to save one breast cancer life.
Olivia talked a little bit about that.
But leaving aside the question of dense breasts, which is particularly the case with young women, the yield in the mammogram is very low, especially in that group.
And so doing mammograms early or doing more mammograms will inevitably yield lots and lots of false positives, lots more biopsies, lots more anxiety.
And, you know, it will obviously yield a few real cases of breast cancer.
So what I've been recommending is very much on the lines of what Olivia did, which is to say, first of all, if you're a young woman and if you have any history of breast cancer, of ovarian cancer, of pancreatic cancer, you should go and see a physician to potentially look at, to do some genetic counseling to see if you're at a genetic risk for breast cancer.
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