No and I am not claiming that it is laughable. I don't think any of this is funny. And, yes, of course I have heard of those things. What I am objecting to is that there is NO discussion in (posted to Mammograms Starting at 50. What?)
I get the issue of prevention versus cost and don't deny its importance, but I think stating that we should give women mammograms from puberty is just using hyperbole to skew the facts. Mammograms don't work for younger women. I'm (posted to Mammograms Starting at 50. What?)
I'm sorry that you went through that process and that it was stressful, but you are lucky that it was not cancer. Like I said above, I have known four women closely related to me who went through the same (posted to Mammograms Starting at 50. What?)
This is what the reports says about anxiety: "Anxiety, distress, and other psychosocial effects can exist with abnormal mammography results but fortunately are usually transient, and some research suggests that these effects are not a barrier to screening. False-negative results (posted to What We Missed )
I guess what I don't get with this thread of comments is why so many people are angry that there is a backlash against these guidelines. It's not as if it is just a group of idiots out there questioning (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
Curious-- who's deciding which posts have comments screened and which don't? A lot of posts lately seem to have them screened but this one doesn't. It would be nice to know up front which is which before posting. (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
I guess what I don't get with this thread of comments is why so many people are angry that there is a backlash against these guidelines. I can't speak for anyone else but I don't like the reflexive demonizing of (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
Yes, that is the other main point. If black women are more at risk, then the guidelines SAY that they should get earlier screening. So if they get earlier screening, they are following the guidelines. It makes no sense to (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
Why would they know when the coverage of these new standards doesn't say a word about different risk factors for black women? Actually, when I first heard this news on the radio they DID specifically mention that black women are (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
Yeah. Perils of women interested in feminism winding up in women's studies classes that don't seem to do a very good job of explaining statistics, at a guess. In fact, from what I can tell feminism itself (or at least (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
