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To: Hodar
While many women do not think a screening test can be harmful, medical experts say the risks are real. They include unnecessary tests, like biopsies that can create extreme anxiety. And mammograms can find cancers that are better off not found. Some cancers grow so slowly that they never would be noticed in a woman’s lifetime. When they are found, women end up being treated unnecessarily.

Researchers worry the new report will be interpreted as a political effort by the Obama administration to save money on health care costs.

Ya think?

16 posted on 11/16/2009 3:02:29 PM PST by rocksblues (Sarah and Joe, Real Americans!)
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To: rocksblues
Researchers worry the new report will be interpreted as a political effort by the Obama administration to save money on health care costs.

Ya think?

You took the response right off my keyboard!

36 posted on 11/16/2009 3:22:20 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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