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If mammograms were not paid for by insurance for women under the age of 50, if they were not recommended for women over the age of 40. I would be dead. I did not have a lump. But I had cancer.

This is such BULLSHIT…..

…the mammogram advice — which women have been gleaning for years from pamphlets in doctors’ offices, fashion magazines and the tags of pink kitchen appliances sold to raise cancer research money — has been turned on its head with the announcement by the United States Preventive Services Task Force that women without unusual cancer risks should not begin regular screening for breast cancer until age 50.

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The task force also recommended that women ages 50 to 74 should have mammograms every two years rather than every year and, in perhaps the most surprising advisory, that doctors should stop advising women to regularly examine their own breasts.

For those who carefully follow the advice of the scientific and medical communities about which exams and screenings are needed annually, there can be a sort of relief when studies step in to make choices for you.

Catherine Patyk, who lives in Chicago, felt “shocked,” by the latest advice, but a tiny bit comforted, too. “I just turned 40, and still haven’t gone to get my first mammogram,” Ms. Patyk said. “This made me feel like ‘Oh, I’m off the hook then.’ ”

But it is also clear that vast experience with friends who have had breast cancer carried far more weight with many women than the new guidelines, which, like those concerning fiber, fat, exercise and myriad other medical advisories, seem ever changing. At times it seems to some women that scientists and drug company executives know little more than your mom.

Don’t buy it. They just want to save the insurance companies money.

Who paid for this study?????? I want to know. I know a crapload of hospitals were in on it. But who PAID for it??? Insurance companies???

I have a feeling it’s not coincidental this is going on now, while health care is being debated.

Oh, and don’t look at me. I didn’t vote for Joe “Arm” Pitts….

Betcha he wouldn’t allow the passage of something that cut off his Viagra.