Move to MRI’s 100% accurate, painless, no false positives.
Mammos are cheap which is why they push them. You cannot deny they are a positive step, but should not be the sole testing method, especially if your family has a genetic link to BC.
And not all breast cancer patients are genetic linked. And they have to find a way to make them less PAINFUL for women like me. There is NO such thing as a painless Mammo.
Some prescription drugs have a cancer warning on them if you bother to read the print outs.
This applies to Lung Cancer as well, my dad was having chest x rays every 3 months at the VA. They did not find the cancer until it was past treating, it was not a fast growing one. They sent him home with a 6 weeks to live report, and started Hospice, he made 3 months, his heart finally gave out from all the narcotics they had him on. Yes he was a Pall Mall smoker and worked in the Steel Mills for most of his life after his WW 2 six yr stint.
The doc was an old GP doc, when she reported the mass, he sent her in for a mammo which came back negative. He then sent her to a radiologist who did a sono, they found a cyst in the area and told her they would watch it which they did for over a year, the cyst remained unchanged.
They thought they had the diagnosis and were doing the right thing. My mom called me convinced she had cancer so I called a friend who was a surgeon and had her look at my mom. Withing 3 days, she had a mastectomy and was set up to see the oncologist.
She put up a good fight, she was diagnosed at 45 and made it to 56, she got to see all of her grand children. She also buried a husband during that period, he was diagnosed with colon cancer and passed within a year.