This week’s topics include screening for ovarian cancer, not much benefit seen with some coronary artery disease treatments, breast cancer prevention, and prevention isn’t working for people with heart disease.

Program notes:
0:27 Two topics regarding prevention
1:04 Postmenopausal women and their breast cancer risk
2:03 Fatty tissue appears dark
3:01 Medications for chemoprevention
3:23 Two techniques for ovarian cancer detection
4:16 CA-125 as a cancer marker
5:20 The authors suggest this as routine screening
5:34 Lack of benefit from some treatments to coronary arteries
6:28 When we restore blood flow why doesn’t death risk decline?
7:21 For stable coronary artery disease medical therapy just as good
8:12 Physicians prescribing more medications but not much impact
9:10 Three out of five people don’t have blood pressure controlled
10:35 End

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