Published November 20, 2009
Why mammograms don’t save lives
After many years of railroading women into getting mammograms every year, the pundits finally backed off their long fostered dogma. And, boy, did it create a stir. In a major study, the government’s U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found that doing yearly mammograms for women under 50 has almost no benefit. Worse, it forces women into costly, worthless, and possibly disfiguring procedures. And the pundits are also telling women over 50 that they should reduce their frequency of mammograms to every other year. And get this. They are at last admitting that breast self exams are a waste.
And, guess who is crying foul! The very ones who brought you this bogus screening procedure to begin with – the radiologists. No wonder! Just follow the money trail! They stand to lose billions ($5 billion yearly) if women adopt these suggestions. They are screaming that “tens of thousands of lives are being saved by mammogram screenings and these idiots want to do away with it.” That was a quote from Daniel Kopans, a radiology professor at Harvard Medical School. Take special note of his specialty.
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