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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (11872)11/27/2009 10:30:37 AM
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Mammograms are a good thing. The costly part is the work up of findings, which most often turn out to be benign. By the same token great numbers of women get cured, relatively non-invasively, when tumors are found early.

The danger of radiation from mammo's is very small. Remember reading that it was estimated as being the same a from smoking 1/8 of one cigarette.
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