From Medical Mutuals Fall 2014 health magazine...

[peace13]

The online magazine is called Health Outlooks and the news is about mammograms. I just love this comment regarding a study they site. 'It found that annual mammograms did not appear to reduce breast cancer deaths, and may even have led to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer cases that wouldn’t otherwise have caused problems in patients’ lifetimes.'

Does it look like they are discouraging women to get tested so they don't have to pay the bill for it?

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Mammogram Update
If you’re confused about how often you should be getting a mammogram, you’re not alone. There’s been so much in the news lately about mammograms that many women aren’t sure what to do. I just love this comment.'It found that annual mammograms did not appear to reduce breast cancer deaths, and may even have led to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer cases that wouldn’t otherwise have caused problems in patients’ lifetimes.'

Most of that buzz arose when the Canadian National Breast Screening Study published its results in the British Medical Journal in February 2014. The study followed more than 90,000 women for 25 years. It found that annual mammograms did not appear to reduce breast cancer deaths, and may even have led to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer cases that wouldn’t otherwise have caused problems in patients’ lifetimes.

Although this particular study didn’t find an advantage to annual mammograms, many others have. So for now, the American Cancer Society maintains its recommendation that women of average risk who are 40 and older should undergo an annual mammogram and clinical breast exam. (Women at higher risk may be advised to have more frequent clinical exams or begin having mammograms earlier.)

Screening recommendations may change in the future. For now, talk to your healthcare provider to identify your personal risk factors and develop a screening schedule that’s right for you.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I don't remember where I read it, but I had heard something about this before.

Mammograms had done such a good job at detecting abnormalities that many women were having biopsies and lumpectomies done on small tumors that were not a real threat to their health. I think that study was also concerned with how much cumulative radiation a woman might be exposed to by having annual mammograms.