United States Preventative Services Task Force: We Will Not Follow Blindly on Breast Health
The first shell-shocker was the announcement that women without direct cancer risks should not receive mammograms if under the age of 40. The new guidelines state that women with cancer in their family should only receive mammograms at the age of 50 and above and, in addition, should only have the mammogram every 2 years.
The second jaw-dropping recommendation was that women, regardless of cancer in their family history, should stop doing breast self-exams. Wait, I'm not sure that I made that clear. The recommendation from the United States Preventative Services Task Force states that women everywhere stop doing self-breast exams. Are you confused? I am, too.
The one thing the media has been telling all of us, women and men, is that "detection is the key". Since day one with preventative medicine and cancer, especially breast cancer, we have all heard this being stated over and over again. We even have the hanging punch tag thing in our showers to remind us to feel our breasts monthly. Now, out of nowhere, we should just stop?
News outlets that are normally middle-of-the-road on these issues and are not quick to supply their opinions are heaping mad at these new "guidelines". Guidelines to what? Death?
United States Preventative Services Task Force - I mean this with all the sincerity in the world. Go take your death game somewhere else. We're not playing.
Published by Sarah Toce
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- New guidelines state that women with cancer in the family should only receive mammograms at age 50.
- Women age 50 and above should only have mammograms every 2 years.
- Guidelines to what? Death?