I saw this on the Today show and the robot they had on there made me furious.

So the government is now changing its recommendations after 'doing some research':

• Most women under 50 should not get Mammograms unless they are high risk (family history etc)
• Women between 50 and 74 should get one every two years
• no screening after age 74
• and Women should not be taught how to do Self-Exams.

The arguments for this make me sick and basically come down to this:

• mammograms are more harmful than good (scroll down on here and you will see this is an exaggeration..and surprisingly this is a govn't website too)
• "most tumors in 40 yr olds are slow-growing" and would be caught at their 50 yr old mammogram,
• if women have an aggressive & rapidly growing breast cancer, their survival rate isn't good anyway,
• if you're over 74 yrs old, you're going to die soon anyway, so we don't want to pay for your treatment
• women should not be taught self-exams because it does more harm than good (leads to checking it out, doing a mammogram/ultrasound, maybe doing a biopsy, maybe saving their lives),
• we need to make our standards like Europe's (HA! that's how they cut their govn't run health care costs--which is what our govn't wants to do.)

Take a hard look.

What do you think?

Believe it or not, I'm putting myself on a leash on this one. I am FUMING. I had Four paragraphs addressing each one of these idiotic arguments.

"The task force advice is based on its conclusion that screening 1,300 women in their 50s to save one life is worth it, but that screening 1,900 women in their 40s to save a life is not, Brawley wrote."

I'll leave it at this:

So basically...the govn't wants to tell you
"ignore that lump you got in your breast--don't touch it to know that it's there, don't check it again in a month to see if it's growning. it's probably nothing. and if it is something, wait til you're 50 to get it checked out -- or until your biennial appt if you're over 50-- if you die because of it before then because it spread through your whole body, then well, we're sorry...but ....you wouldn't have wanted to get a potentially agressive treatment in order to beat it, would you?"

????!!!

Read more here and here or just start looking at the news, it's popping up all over.

Things are about to get heated. American Cancer Society disagrees. Breastcancer.org just put out a statement as well.

Feel free to disagree with me, i won't attack you people are entitled to their opinions.

What do you think?