You can read all about the debate over whether women should be getting screened for breast cancer before the age of 50. I for one thinks is pretty irresponsible for the any governmental or pseudo-governmental agency or committee to make such a recommendation. It wreaks of some bullshit cost-cutting measure and I don’t know how many young women (mothers, sisters, wives) would be gone today had they not gone and had that screening done and been given that fateful diagnosis by their health care provider. How many, Washington? 1, 10, 1000? In my opinion, whatever the number it is too many.

I did some research and gathered some interesting perspectives on this debate that I thought I would share. I’d like to say now that my purpose of aggregating these was not because I agreed with them all, but because I wanted to provide as many different perspectives as possible.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Breast Cancer: Radiologists Need to Do More Reading

There’s More to Mammography Than A Quick Scan

News Hub: Making Sense of New Mammogram Guidelines

From Koman Advocacy Alliance:

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As breast cancer advocates for millions of women and men, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advocacy Alliance believes that there should be no impediments to mammography screening for women aged 40 and above.  Despite the recent change in the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations, the evidence shows that mammograms save lives in women 40 and over.

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From Google News:

High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients Skip MRIs

Sen. Dan Foster: Cancer screening choices