re: #88 EmmmieG

I can’t find it broken out that way.

Here’s a group that differs with Komen on mammograms:

Komen’s “take action” emphasis continues to be on individual women getting annual mammograms.
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Komen’s faith in mammograms to bring the “end to breast cancer” is misplaced.

-Mammograms don’t prevent breast cancer; they detect breast cancers that have already developed.
-Mammograms don’t detect all breast cancers: according to the National Cancer Institute, “mammograms miss up to 20 percent of breast cancers that are present at the time of screening.”
-And unfortunately, there are plenty of women diagnosed, by mammography, with early stage breast cancer who end up dying of breast cancer.

More women getting more mammograms is not going to end the breast cancer epidemic. Neither, of course, are healthy diets and good exercise regimes.
http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?p=1597