Thank you.
In the Swedish trial, they invited women to come for a mammogram, and half the women were not invited.
How do you know that they didn't have a palpable cancer? The ones who came they could have excluded with a palpable cancer, but the controls were never examined. They don't know if they had a palpable cancer or no cancer. That trial, the Swedish trial, is considered the gold standard. I have reviewed it very closely and found many things that I consider to be inadequate.
Dr. Gordon claims that there are eight trials, of which only the Canadian trial is an outlier. I would love to see the other seven. The only two I know of are the Swedish trials. I would love to see the references to the other six trials that I'm not aware of. I'm only aware of the U.K. age trial, which showed no effect.
I'm aware of the HIP trial, which showed no effect after 15 years of follow-up, and the Edinburgh trial.
To come to this committee and say that there are eight trials that show an effect for randomized trials and one that doesn't is something that.... If I were on this committee, I wouldn't wish to have that evidence.
Trust me—it's not there. There are not eight trials that show a benefit. If there are, I'll be very willing to apologize to Dr. Gordon and the others.