| | | Just in time, the American Cancer Society recommends FEWER mammograms:
American Cancer Society, in a Shift, Recommends Fewer Mammograms
Two of my high school classmates already got breast cancer, and one of them died because of it. They're my age, i.e. under 45. And the new recommendations say that mammograms should not start until that age.
Here is the reasoning behind the shift:
The changes reflect increasing evidence that mammography is imperfect, that it is less useful in younger women, and that it has serious drawbacks, like false-positive results that lead to additional testing, including biopsies. Well gee, what's wrong with false positives? Does it threaten the life of the patient in any way if the additional testing reveals nothing? Most likely not.
No, the real reason is because of COST. That's the only reason, and it's a shame that the American Cancer Society is weighing the value of patient lives that could be saved due to early detection against the cost of false positives.
Now why do you think cost is such a concern that even the American Cancer Society would gamble the lives of women, even younger thirty-something women, for the sake of it?
One word: ObamaCare.
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