Confusion reins supreme in the US this week!The new screening guidelines, issued on Monday by the Preventive Services Task Force of the Department of Health and Human Services, recommend against routine screening mammography in women 40 to 49. They would scale back screening for women 50 to 74, to every other year from annually.
The recommendations question the usefulness of mammography for women 75 and older. And they counsel against teaching women to perform breast self-exams and question the usefulness of clinical breast exams.
Read the article from the New York Times here, keeping in mind that for some time now, it has been a well documented fact that mammograms are not an ideal medium for scanning pre-menopausal breast tissue. Yet at no stage of proceedings have authorities suggested to women that there are other options available to them, such as digital infrared thermal imaging. A radiation free, painless non-invasive option that is being taken up by more and more women across the world, as they become aware of its existence.
Have a read of the article and make up your own mind about what is really going on here.
In good health
Patricia
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