Comments about ‘Mammogram confusion: I'll take doctor's advice’

It's too bad that for the last 30 years women's groups have used the supposed need for mammograms as a political tool.

Opposed to forcing insurance companies to pay for mammograms? You must hate women! Any politician that doesn't support the latest fad in women's health gets called all kinds of nasty names.

This debate is one where women's groups have been exposed as tools of the democratic party.

Unlike the author I wouldn't doubt for a second this didn't have something to do with politics and big money. You think with trillions at stake people don't do some pretty devious things?

It's allready been politicied either way as the government trying to ration care so I can't any logic other than political affiliation why the probablility that this complete change of direction can be ruled out as deviousness.

Untill you are independant you'll never accept how it is both sides messing up the nation. I don't sleep with donkeys or elephants.

Well, Cathy what you refer to as "the latest fad in women's health" has saved the lives of several people I know under age 40. And there's no doubt that any 'savings' reaped from NOT "forcing insurance companies to pay for mammograms" will not result in decreased premiums but will go straight into the pockets of insurance company execs.

Donkey and Elephants are scandalized that hyenas are using their good names. A pox on both the Demos and Repubs.

who made the new recommendations are correct. Mammograms are overused. Biopsies are overused. Most breast cancers appear around the age of menopause and then decline in older age. Squeezing the breast tissue and bombarding it with radiation is counter productive, something that the radiology community is unwilling to talk about. Radiation causes cancer. Doing it every year is a risk.

manipulated by money. If you read the official report and recommendations, they don't say that mammograms aren't useful for age 40 and up, it says that the cost (not of the mammogram, but of the procedures to unravel false positives) does not justify the fewer lives saved in that age group. In other words, it might not make sense to do mammograms for the whole population, but if your insurance will cover it, it might make sense for you.

You have to be careful saying "science wins the day" without looking at the fine print attached to EVERY research study.

Posters have occasionally touted the favorable definition of liberal offered by the Dictinary.

Having become very used to the cold hearted and hateful contributions of 'liberals' on this forum, it seems that a new or additional definition of liberal is well overdue, something to do with hypocrisy and pretended compassion masking hate, arrogance and intolerance.

I am lucky the guidelines were still age 40 last summer or I never would have gone in for my mammogram until age 50. My first mammo just before my 41st birthday turned up cancer. The Task Force argues that there are too many false alarms so let's do less testing. What if the Fire Department told us the same thing? Would we agree to rip out all the smoke detectors across the nation? I hope not.

"New Definition of Liberal"
What does this have to do with the story?

Oh wait this is a conservatives answer.
Don't talk about the issues at hand, start name calling, generalizations then
then finish with "Hostel Liberal."

When will people wake to
the "Bottom Line Corporation" is the ruthless dictator of capitalism.

8:51 (Dictinary)(?)

Nice try.

The hallmark calling card of a CON is "...cold hearted and hateful name calling...".

CONS have everything to do "...with hypocrisy and pretended compassion masking hate, arrogance and intolerance".

YOUR COMMENT represents the epitome of your definition.

I have a serious question about this recommendation. The panel that made this recommendation does not have a single oncologist as a member. Without any experts in the field having a vote, how can we really trust this panel?

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