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To: Kenny500c

It is my understanding that routine mammograms are of no use anyway.

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My wife had one yesterday at a local hospital. The local hospital gives them for however much your insurance will pay. No insurance? No charge. No co pays.


7 posted on 02/24/2016 8:57:56 AM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58

This is from the N. Y. Times, writing about mammograms, not a conservative paper by any means:

“It found that the death rates from breast cancer and from all causes were the same in women who got mammograms and those who did not. And the screening had harms: One in five cancers found with mammography and treated was not a threat to the woman’s health and did not need treatment such as chemotherapy, surgery or radiation.”

A cynic would say that a hospital that gives free mammograms is looking for a patient to treat whether they need treatment or not.

Personally, I don’t know enough about the subject, but I hope your wife is fine.


8 posted on 02/24/2016 12:47:32 PM PST by Kenny500c
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