Disagrees with new mammogram guidelines
I am a retired M.D. radiologist having been involved with breast imaging, including interpreting mammograms, for most of my career.
Many physicians, including radiologists in the American College of Radiology, and breast surgeons represented by the Society of Breast Surgeons do not agree with the recent recommendations of the American Cancer Society for women to begin mammograms at age 45 rather than 40, and to have them only every other year after 55 rather than yearly.
Some believe that these changes are based more on saving someone (Obamacare?) money rather than on saving lives. Mammograms are not perfect but yearly mammograms (after a breast exam by the woman’s referring doctor) beginning at age 40 are still the best means of detecting early, more curable breast cancers.
William Ford M.D.
Columbus
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