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curious2
2014 Feb 11, 3:31pm
curious2
2014 Feb 11, 3:31pm
There was a good comment by another user here, I don't know what happened to it.
Meanwhile, as noted in the linked article, mammograms produce many false diagnoses and unnecessary procedures, which are performed very expensively in hospitals, which is a reason why the AHA lobbied for "free" mammograms. For more about hospital practices maximizing revenues while putting patients at risk, there is a separate thread on the topic.
"We found absolutely no benefit in terms of reduction of deaths from the use of mammography," said study leader Dr. Anthony Miller, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. The controversial finding is unlikely to trigger an immediate change in [American] screening policies, although it will enliven an already heated debate over screening. Experts have been arguing the merits of breast X-rays since 2009, when a government panel recommended that most women under 50 could safely skip the test.
That's why Obamacare mandates both men and women prepay equally for those "free" $1,000 mammograms. The diagnostic radiation imposes an inherent risk of causing the cancer that it is supposed to find, and the test results are often ambiguous so many are "diagnosed" with cancers that are imaginary (but lucrative and permanently injurious to remove). Congratulations, freely irradiated women, you're "winning".
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