Questioning The Mammography Debate

New guidelines on breast cancer screening have sparked a fair amount of anger and confusion among women. Dr. Jennifer Ashton answers some of her own patient's questions about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendations.

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[Keither9]

1. mammograms are less effective vs MRIs.

2. MRI, as a technological advancement to cancer/surgical aids and the licencing as such is coming up soon for eval.

3. Since the cost was set by the product cost of invention and the cost of a digital picture machine has been paid for by that start up cost MRIs could be free except for the maintainer's cost to the machines and machine placement, something applied digital used to secure sells of products over competitors.

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[Keither9]

Brest tumors weighing in at 44g. might never be if cost over a controversial process is not the issue accreted to Brussels/Belgium need to flatten and x-ray due to the pain of pulling out the wallet, or the punishment of just having breast?

[amamuffin]

Thanks Dr.Ashton for still advising on yearly exams. All texts supporting the new findings and recommend less frequent mammograms and self breast exams make absolutely no sense. here is a quote""My life was saved by because of a mammogram I got when I was 39 and breast cancer was detected." But we don't know that her life was saved by that mammogram. She might have found the lump herself the next day, in the shower". Why then stop the touch breast exams that the ob usually performs as routine?

[wild112233]

How dare George Bush constitute such a group of experts to analyze medical data, and give such recommendations?

I took biology in high school. Mammograms are good - every woman over the age of 18 needs to have them.

[Laurieb2851]

This is flat out health care rationing. It's the mentality that men are the breadwinners and the women are at home barefooted and pregnant that is at play here. Women are always the ones to pay when it comes to health care. Research is geared toward men because they are thought to be the ones of value - the ones who bring home the bacon. I wonder where those men think they would be if a woman hadn't given birth to them?