Wow! If you’ve been keeping up with this controversy, you know it has created quite a stir among health professionals, activists, cancer survivors and women in general.
Pros and Cons:
Pro: The fact is regular mammography has saved thousands of lives by detecting tumors that women and their physicians did not find. One published study done in Sweden found deaths from breast cancer reduced 44% when a mammogram program was put in place. This year alone, 203,500 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 39,600 dying of the disease. We can imagine what these number would be without mammograms!
Con: USPSTF says “Women under 50 are more likely to get a false positive mammogram because of the denseness of their breast tissue.” Some 40,000 a year are put through needless agonizing emotional turmoil, biopsies and other medical procedures due to false positive test results.
Consider:
1. Mammography does little to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous cells.
2. By the time some cancerous tumors show up on a mammogram or can be felt by self breast exam, they may have been growing there for 8-10 years!
Options Under Consideration:
1. Ultrasound
2. MRI
3. Computer –aided detection/diagnosis
4. Thermography
5. Blood tests
Your thoughts? Tell us how you feel!
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