Mammograms: Do We Really Need Them?

This week, Brett Newcomb and I are talking about a new and controversial report out in Canada that suggests that women don’t really need regular mammograms. The point of the report seems to be that breast cancer is treatable and that most women now survive breast cancer, even if they are late in discovering that they have it. While this is becoming more true (women do tend to survive breast cancer now,) there are still a few women who do not. The best way to make sure that you are not one of these women is to continue to demand regular mammograms and ultrasounds. It is all well and good to talk about statistical averages, but not if you are the anomaly.