In November, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) changed its guidelines on mammography, suggesting that women do not need routine screening for breast cancer until the age of 50 and that screenings every other year would be sufficient.
This makes me wonder about the value of mammograms. I know that there are women who would credit mammograms with saving their lives but it really makes me wonder how safe it really is.
Remember Marie Curie. She died of radiation poisoning. Now her case is extreme but it does state the power of radiation. Could it be that we are exposed to too much radiation?
Statistics did show that the rates of breast cancer went down when women got off of the synthetic HRT.
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In November, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) changed its guidelines on mammography, suggesting that women do not need routine screening for breast cancer until the age of 50 and that screenings every other year would be sufficient.
http://www.annals.org/content/137/5_Part_1/305.full?sid=4df53986-6d31-4482-9182-c7425d901923
This makes me wonder about the value of mammograms. I know that there are women who would credit mammograms with saving their lives but it really makes me wonder how safe it really is.
Remember Marie Curie. She died of radiation poisoning. Now her case is extreme but it does state the power of radiation. Could it be that we are exposed to too much radiation?
Statistics did show that the rates of breast cancer went down when women got off of the synthetic HRT.
How safe are the mammograms really?
February 27, 2010 - 1:48pmThis Comment
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