An Oversold Weapon Against Breast Cancer

Townhall.com ^ | February 16, 2014 | Steve Chapman

[Tired of Taxes]

Ok, well, the report at the link points out that the study relied on poor-quality, secondhand machines and the technicians weren’t trained properly.

So, assuming the report is true, then this Canadian study just tells us what happens when poor-quality, secondhand machines and poorly-trained technicians are used.

Believe me, I’d like to believe the study. Then I’d feel much better about my decision not to have a mammo. :-( Yes, there are many cases in which the mammo doesn’t catch anything. I might’ve been one of those cases, if I had one earlier, but who knows...

[Jim from C-Town]

No I don’t think Medicare Or Tricare or even the best policy from any health insurer would cover a MRI or even a CT with Die Resolution without having a positive Mammogram first. That is the point.

The other point is that regardless of how painful a single person, or even group of people, might find a standard medical procedure, they will not comply for those individuals when the idea of the test is preventative. Particularly when a Mammogram is both effective and cheap when compared to a CT at three times the cost and an MRI at ten times the cost.

Point three, mammograms save women’s lives. I know for a fact. A mammogram saved my wife’s life or at least saved her a much worse fight to remain alive. Get one, don’t get one, it is your choice. But for a study funded and conducted by a government, Canada, that pays for its’ citizens health care to say that they do not is a dubious study at best, particularly when a virtual unanimous opinion of oncologists and medical professionals say to get them yearly starting at age forty.