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liberal_at_heart

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10. I don't care what these studies say. The survival rate for breast cancer is much better than it

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 02:04 AM

Feb 2014

was when my mom was diagnosed in '76 and early detection and treatment is key to that. Also just the fact that women are so empowered and public about it now I think lends to higher survival rates. When my mom had breast cancer talking about it was still taboo. I doubt women will stop getting mammograms just because a few studies says there is no benefit. I have had a double preventative mastectomy so I don't need mammograms anymore but before I had the surgery I certainly did get mammograms and if my daughter tests positive for the gene she will be getting screenings as well.

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Mammogram screenings don't reduce cancer death rates, study finds [View all] Celebration Feb 2014 OP

careful, that is NOT exactly what this study shows! unblock Feb 2014 #1

Interesting...I just got notice that I am due again for a mammogram. Paper Roses Feb 2014 #2

What the study says, more or less, is that your odds are about the same either way. bemildred Feb 2014 #3

Age 71? Yearly mammograms? SheilaT Feb 2014 #8

Which is the same thing that's been found in every study i've seen for decades. MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #4

My husband and I are the exception to this rule. phylny Feb 2014 #5

I wonder if there is a subgroup that could benefit, statistically Celebration Feb 2014 #6

It could be. phylny Feb 2014 #7

My elderly mother had a masectomy following a mammogram - I don't know the details hedgehog Feb 2014 #9

I don't care what these studies say. The survival rate for breast cancer is much better than it liberal_at_heart Feb 2014 #10

A thorough assessment of the study and what it means. HuckleB Feb 2014 #11

+1. bemildred Feb 2014 #12