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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: John Carragher who wrote (11945)11/28/2009 8:33:44 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
i was having tg dinner with a few women who had breast cancer at early stage

How old were they and did they have family histories? Your anecdotes are impossible to evaluate without that information.

I once worked with a young woman who was constantly getting screened for cysts and having them removed. I don't know how many incisions she had but it was at least dozens. She pretty much knew that they wouldn't be cancerous but there was this compulsion to keep checking. I can understand it but I'm not sure it's healthy.

do you support moving the exam to a later date.

I think it depends on the individual. Younger women with a family history of breast cancer should be screened early and often, I would think. Younger women with dense breasts or a history of cysts should probably use some screening process other than a mammogram. For the rest, I don't see why they need to be tested so often during that decade. Maybe once at 40, then every two or three years up to age 50 would be plenty.

I would think mammograms could taper off after the early 70s. My mother died of breast cancer but I will probably not continue annual mammograms much beyond the age of her diagnosis.

I absolutely do not support refusing anyone a mammogram because she doesn't meet any criteria. But then no one is suggesting that.
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