In mid-November, 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force unleashed recommendations stating women need mammograms less
frequently, with regular breast-cancer screening starting at age 50 rather than age 40, 40 being the recommendation of virtually all medical societies including The American Cancer Society.
Furthermore, the Task Force concluded mammograms should be performed biennially, not yearly, and implied that no significant loss of life would result from breast cancer during ages 40-49. Women were just to chill until they reached the big Five-O.
Another study has been just been released by the Journal of the American College of Radiology, coming from the prestigious Society of Breast Imaging and American College of Radiology. The result? Predictable.
"The significant decrease in breast cancer mortality, which amounts to nearly 30 percent since 1990, is a major medical success and is due largely to earlier detection of breast cancer through mammography screening," the earlier detection being between the ages of 40-49. Read more at LiveScience.com (//link).
The mindless turnover from the American public of our precious medical research--not to mention soon-to-be medical practice--to political think-tanks convulsing for more tax dollars to support their self-interest, agenda-driven fits may be enough to collapse the American system once and for all. Do not under-estimate the toll big medicine taxation will strain the republic.
Nor government's medical ethics when it publicly "recommends" from one of its "study" task forces that old people not only have a perfect "right" to die but old people have an unmitigated "duty" to die.
With that, I am...
Peter
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