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Reply to "Interesting research on the over diagnosis of breast 'cancer' due to mammograms"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22184734 To prevent one death from breast cancer, one must screen 400 women annually over a 10 year period. 4,000 mammograms to save one life. If you or someone you love is that one person, I will not debate the absolute value of mammograms. But step back and consider the dollar cost of those 4,000 mammograms. And while I do not have the statistics handy, I am quite sure that more than one false positive accompanied by unnecessary treatment is associated with those 4,000 screens. Even reducing screening to every other year seems like a reasonable tactic. A decision for each of us to make without pressure from the pink ribbon crowd.[/quote] I noticed you cited a .gov site. I just want to say that I'm no Obama fan, but this is something his administration is bang-on about and I'm glad they are looking at the science. [/quote]
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