Our Breasts Are At Risk - Red Alert

[robbrt]

What a load of

[MizzSabra]

I watched this story on the news last night and thought to myself....these people are freaking crazy! Two women on my mother's side (Aunt and Grandmother) both had breast cancer, both survived. This puts me in a "special" group of women who are to be tested at the age of 40 and every year there after. I love being special! NOT.

It's truly sickening that Viagra is available to men who can't get a hard on, but women now might have to WAIT to get a mammogram that will save their lives?

[Selenay]

It also says women age 50 to 74 should have mammograms less frequently — every two years, rather than every year. And it said doctors should stop teaching women to examine their breasts on a regular basis.

Just seven years ago, the same group, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, with different members, recommended that women have mammograms every one to two years starting at age 40. . .


Congress requires Medicare to pay for annual mammograms. Medicare can change its rules to pay for less frequent tests if federal officials direct it to.

Private insurers are required by law in every state except Utah to pay for mammograms for women in their 40s.


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[Rufusboi]

I'm ignoring that "panel" because in 10 years they will reverse everything they just said here.

[MizzSabra]

Originally Posted by Rufusboi

I'm ignoring that "panel" because in 10 years they will reverse everything they just said here.

Right. But how many women will die in the meantime, esp low income women?

[SuperFemme]

Snipped from the panels website;

Role of Partners

Outside experts who provide extensive peer review of draft reports are drawn from the clinical professions, public health, epidemiology, health promotion, and education. Liaisons from the major primary care societies and from Public Health Service agencies contribute their expertise to the evaluation process, provide peer review of draft documents, and help disseminate the work of the USPSTF to their members.


Federal partners include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Defense (DOD), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).


Primary care partners include the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Physician Assistants, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Physicians, American College of Preventive Medicine, America's Health Insurance Plans, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and the Pan American Health Organization.

[Andrew, Jr.]

Please make sure everyone gets their yearly mammograms and does the monthly self breast exams.

Andrew

[WolfyOne]

Breast cancer runs on both sides of my family. I think these people ought to find something else to do with their time other than sitting around sipping coffee and trying to decide how they can upset and hurt all of us. Women are not the only ones that can get breast cancer. It's just more talked about and prevalent in women. I bet none of them would talk that way if they or someone close to them was diagnosed with breast cancer...............these know-it-alls disgust me.