http://www.efitnessnow.com/news/2009/11/22/women-feeling-confused-with-new-breast-cancer-screening-guidelines/ Your Health And Fitness Guide Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:32:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.efitnessnow.com/news/2009/11/22/women-feeling-confused-with-new-breast-cancer-screening-guidelines/comment-page-1/#comment-18928 brenda Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:50:33 +0000 http://www.efitnessnow.com/?p=2418#comment-18928 To say that women are "confused" is ridiculous and patronizing. I, as a woman, am not confused over the new recommendations. I can't imagine that most women are "confused" about these guidelines. We can read, think and make decisions on our own. Given the facts about the risk and benefits of a mammogram in our 40's I think we can make up our own minds about whether we can handle the "anxiety" of a false positive and whether we want to leave a slow growing cancer ("in situ") sitting in our breasts because it may never affect us. I certainly don't want a task force deciding this for me. It seems to me that this is a recommendation for "herd" medicine and cost containment and not about individual health and benifits. To say that women are “confused” is ridiculous and patronizing. I, as a woman, am not confused over the new recommendations. I can’t imagine that most women are “confused” about these guidelines. We can read, think and make decisions on our own. Given the facts about the risk and benefits of a mammogram in our 40’s I think we can make up our own minds about whether we can handle the “anxiety” of a false positive and whether we want to leave a slow growing cancer (”in situ”) sitting in our breasts because it may never affect us. I certainly don’t want a task force deciding this for me. It seems to me that this is a recommendation for “herd” medicine and cost containment and not about individual health and benifits.

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