A health panel is now telling women not to get mamograms until 50.
Considering how many women get breast cancer in their 40s that sounds like really stupid advice.
What are they going to suggest next, take up smoking and cover their walls with lead paint?


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Fucktards, indeed.
Same suggestion can be made for colonoscopies, the data shows that more people have problems than those that are saved.
Screening is such an easy thing to get behind that it seems crazy to make a suggestion like this but the fact show more people are hurt than saved.
Added to that we are wasting billions of dollars a year that could be getting the millions of uninsured 50-60 year olds checked out where the cancer rates are higher therefore saving MORE women.
My feeling is that the reason people can't understand fact based suggestions to policy is either ideological blindness or poor training in the math that makes these discoveries possible.
IOW, they do more harm than good.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/OnCallPlusBreastCancerNews/yearly-mammograms-undergo-scrutiny/story?id=9099863
It was the the United States Preventive Task Force