A disconcerting article about mammograms and cancer
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A disconcerting article about mammograms and cancer
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/ ... 4447.story
"For years, breast cancer awareness campaigns have urged women over 40 to get a yearly mammogram. When women hesitate to comply, it's often to avoid the discomfort of having their breasts squeezed or the fear of getting called back for more tests, even if it turns out there's no cancer.
But screening poses another downside: A routine mammogram can find cancers that would never have become life-threatening, subjecting women to painful and toxic treatments they never actually needed."
"For years, breast cancer awareness campaigns have urged women over 40 to get a yearly mammogram. When women hesitate to comply, it's often to avoid the discomfort of having their breasts squeezed or the fear of getting called back for more tests, even if it turns out there's no cancer.
But screening poses another downside: A routine mammogram can find cancers that would never have become life-threatening, subjecting women to painful and toxic treatments they never actually needed."
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What Helen says is absolutely true - they are much better now. I'm going to place that even puts a warmed up foam pad on the machine to make it more comfortable. It's a piece of cake now. I can remember when I thought I'd leave the mamography center looking like my boobs had been run over by a truck.