“No, there are too many tests being done with the risks outweighing the benefits.”
Mamograms are basically risk free. This is more of the collective being more important than the individual. Because the hard cold fact is that many women will die from this because their cancer will not be found in time. The risk is that a few will get false alarms that take a few days to clear up. A VERY small price to pay against your very life.
This new guideline does not make any sense to me. MANY women have had this cancer in their late 30’s or early 40’s and now it won’t be caught in time. I shouldn’t talk as I’m at the age to get one but I don’t want to cause I heard it’s painful and I’m very sensitive on top of it. There’s no breast cancer in my family anyways.
Mammograms are not risk free. Radiation is involved. And the increased stress and cost and risks of medical procedures from false positive must also be considered.
There are many different types of breast cancers, as well as other types of cancer. Some are very aggressive and some that appear in most elderly women are slow growing and something else will cause the woman’s death long before the cancer has any effect. The tricky part is in being able to determine which ones are dangerous and which ones are not. It is similar to prostate cancer in men.
More and more there is little evidence that many preventive measures do much good. I know few people are willing to accept that, but it’s true. Health News Review has a lot of information on this.