{"id":763,"date":"2009-11-18T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/11\/your-thoughts-on-the-new-mammogram-guidelines.html"},"modified":"2009-11-18T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:00:05","slug":"your-thoughts-on-the-new-mammogram-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/11\/your-thoughts-on-the-new-mammogram-guidelines.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Thoughts on the New Mammogram Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us were surprised to read that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrq.gov\/clinic\/uspstfab.htm\" target=\"_blank\">United States Preventative Services Task Force<\/a> (USPSTF) is recommending that women get their first mammograms at age 50, not 40&#8211;and, more shockingly, that doctors stop advising women to administer monthly self-exams on their breasts.<\/p>\n<p>For followers of health trends, though, the recommendations are not so shocking.&nbsp; There is an ongoing debate on the delicate line between &#8220;early detection&#8221; and &#8220;over-treating&#8221; in many aspects of health care, notably <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/03\/prostate-cancer-and-other-health-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">prostate cancer<\/a>, in which men are often diagnosed and treated for cancers that run almost no risk of killing them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the arguments are being made that early mammograms save too few lives&#8211;and yield too many false positives&#8211;to justify continuing recommending them.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/18\/health\/18mammogram.html?_r=1&amp;ref=health\" target=\"_blank\">article in this morning&#8217;s New York Times<\/a> reported on skeptical reactions to the news&#8211;and many women saying that they would simply ignore the recommendations and continue to take preventative screening measures in their own bodies.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fresh Living readers, what do you think?<\/b>&nbsp; Are you skeptical?&nbsp; Relieved to get a 10-year free pass on mammograms?&nbsp; Enraged at the idea of missing the chance to save even one life?&nbsp; Tired of a preventative test-happy health care system?&nbsp; Looking forward to your comments.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><strong>Like what you see? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=FreshLiving&amp;amp;loc=en_US\"><font color=\"#023d89\"><strong>Click here to subscribe<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong> and get Fresh Living in your in-box every day!<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us were surprised to read that the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) is recommending that women get their first mammograms at age 50, not 40&#8211;and, more shockingly, that doctors stop advising women to administer monthly self-exams on their breasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-current-events","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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