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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (11962)	11/29/2009 9:21:12 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I hear you. Mammo's can prevent this. If the lesion is found while it is still small, the treatment is lumpectomy with a relatively easy course of radiotherapy. May avoid chemo altogether. Mammography picks up spots so small that one could never find them on physical examination. I've seen very many cases like that - that's why I would tend to be quite aggressive with mammographies. Remember that they are hesitant to recommend routine mammo's under the age of 50 NOT because they "don't work" - but because they do not (yet?) have studies to prove that they would be "cost effective" from a public health point of view. I think this is a fully valid consideration - however, not for everyone. For women at high risk, I don't give a rat's behind about "official" recommendations - they should definitely have mammo's done at a younger age.