Few women get mammograms...........

[mede8er]

ATLANTA - After more than a decade of urging by doctors that women over 40 should receive mammograms yearly, few actually do so, according to a large cancer study.

Only 6 percent of women who received a mammogram in 1992 received mammograms yearly for the next 10 years, according to a study of 72,417 women of all ages at Massachusetts General Hospital, the largest look at mammography to date............

And I don't blame them. This seems so archaic to me. I'd never willingly stick my 'appendage' in between to plates and have them squeeze me............:wow:

Why not ultrasound?????????????

[nini]

1. I just had mine done

while it's not fun, it's not that bad either considering what chemo and all that other crap would be.

[supernova]

2. Yes, it's not that bad

I just had mine done. I've definitely had much more invasive and worse procedures and lived to tell about it.

A few seconds of discomfort, not even a minute, pales in comparison to months of possible surgery, chemo, and radiation.

Ladies, get your mmammograms! :loveya:

[GCP]

3. I hate them but get them

But I've always said, if that was the only way men could be tested for testicluar cancer - you can bet they'd have a new test out in no time!

[madmax]

4. I've been saying the same thing for years.

Smash their jewels once a year and watch them find a new way to test.

:evilgrin:

[luaneryder]

5. Get your mammograms!!!!

I have gone thru breast cancer surgery (lumpectomy) and 33 radiation treatments because a mammogram found extremely early ductal carcinoma in situ. An ultrasound cannot find something as small as what I had and even some radiologists do not observe it. I just happened to have an excellent, well trained radiologist that read my mammo. I almost blew my mammo off last year; I could have been lanning my funeral this year. GET YOUR MAMMOGRAMS!!!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. I must remind people that cost is an obstacle for low-income women

Fourteen years ago, I had my first mammogram when the local hospital had a "sale" on them, only $49.

Given inflation, the "sale price" would probably be more like $75-100, and that's an insurmountable obstacle for women without health insurance who are too "rich" for Medicaid.

I wonder what the mammogram rate is in the countries that have national health care.

[supernova]

7. Mine was $385 this year

At one of the top hospitals in the country. And why yes, I am paying it off in installments. Thank you.

[luaneryder]

8. That may be

but cancer treatment is a hell of a lot more. The further advanced the cancer is the more expensive and the more stressful, painful, etc. etc.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. No denying that cancer is more expensive, but

$385 can be more than a week's wages for a member of the working poor, and if the rent is due and the credit cards are maxed out, cancer detection is the last thing on their minds.

[supernova]

10. In all fairness

there are hospitals (like mine) that do indigent/charity care, i.e. they just write it off.

I wish they would advertise it more so that people who need it would know about it.

[mede8er]

11. You are all......

Far braver than me.......:toast:

[tigereye]

12. get one every year

better to be safe/ or at least aware...