~ NO Changes to Mamogram Guidelines !~

This does not make me feel any better in the beuricratic changes that the government "Task Force" has made.  IMO the "Task Force" has taken a very narrow veiw on limited information and had zero professionals with any real impacting knowledge on the different aspects of breast cancer and who is at risk.  This will only confuse Dr. (especially new ones out of college) and lead to a lesser quality of medical care and services.

There will be a very REAL risk from this "Task Force" and harming women who are at risk of breast cancer until these changes are reversed.  I can not for the life of me understand where they get the "3%" rate either.  If nothing more that was shown for that dreaded PINK month of October, is that there are many women survivors who are young and need this testing.  I get the impression that the study was presented in a way to get what the overall goal was to be which is offering less mammograms to women.

I love the fact that you are trying to be positive with this article Lexis...but the reality will be more women will have done to them, what I did which was a refusal of a mammogram even in the light of being high risk...the GYN was a year out of college who refused to give me something that would have saved my life!