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Modern Medicine: New Mammography Guidelines Cause Controversy
11/19/09 - 12:49 PM
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a study Monday recommending that healthy women not begin mammograms until age 50 and only every two years.  This varies from the information previously recommended.  The American Cancer Society is still standing by their original recommendations to begin yearly mammograms at age 40.

Diane Ingraham was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 42.  She discovered a lump during a self-exam and went for further testing.  She says the new guidelines concern her.  The new guidelines also concern Kim Lydick.  She is a Registered Nurse at the Gulf Coast Cancer Treatment Center and is the Vice Chair of the local American Cancer Society’s Board of Directors.  She says clinical trials support screening because it saves lives.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says mammograms at age 40 can lead to unnecessary tests, biopsies and worry.  They say it can also lead to false positives.

Click here to see the recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Click here to see the guidelines from the American Cancer Society.

User Comments

This plan and recommendations,same exact ones, if you research it has come up under Reagan,BushI,Clinton,BushII, and now Obama. It has nothing to do with Health Reform or rationing. It has already been shot down and was just another political ploy by big insurance and if you can’t see that they are running scared as they are spending millions on every day propaganda so they can keep your rates high and the status quo. It’s really sick as they try and scare seniors and now women. They are SCUM.
There are over 40 million uninsured that can’t even get a mamogram or prostate check! That’s the sad part as many of these will end up in the Emergency Room, which you are already paying for, too late.
We need a strong Public Option,now! This is the greatest bill for working class Americans since the 1965 Medicare Act. Don’t be fooled by private insurance or the Republicans as they have a money interest in it not passing.
With a Public option, it will save us all a bunch of money on premiums

Posted by retired one  on  11/20  at  10:12 AM

What really bothers me with this guy in the President’s office is that so many of his followers, or worshippers, still think he’s better than Jesus Christ!  I really feel sorry for them when their eyes are finally opened to what they have unleashed on our country.  This, I fear, is just the beginning with even worse to come.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  11/20  at  09:37 AM

get ready this is part of the obama health plan,,, limit the amount of healthcare. write or call your congressman and senator, tell them they will be fired if this plan passes!!

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  11/20  at  08:51 AM

Thank you Obama-care!  Of course women are the first casualty of this disastrous plan. 
I know of at least 3 breast cancer survivors who were all diagnosed in their 40s.
And because of the anticipated passing of this ridiculous bill, the AMA is drinking the Koolaid and falling in line with the Obama-care bottom line brand of healthcare. Why? Because they were promised that a number of “costly to the physician” items would be removed from the bill if the AMA endorsed it.
Medicare, who had opposed the bill from the beginning, drank a similar cup of Koolaid as well, and endorsed the bill.  So instead of looking out for the patients, as they should be, Hippocratic Oath and all, they’re looking out for their own butts and bottom lines. Should be renamed the Hippocritic oath.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  11/19  at  04:02 PM
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