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...Cancer Foundation and the American College of Ostetricians and Gynecologists - questioned the new recommendations. So did women. "I'm just shocked, absolutely shocked," says Deana Rich, a clinical-research associate in Seattle. The 47-year-old has no family history of breast cancer but has been dutifully getting an annual mammogram for the past seven years in order to reduce her risk of dying from the disease. One of her friends recently received a breast-cancer diagnosis, and several other friends are breast-cancer survivors; all of them learned of their disease thanks to a routine mammogram they got during...
...mammography trials, the panel found that having a yearly mammogram screening cuts the risk of breast-cancer death 15% in women ages 40 to 49. That reduction, it should be noted, is relative, not absolute. The absolute risk of breast-cancer death after age 40 is 3% without annual screening, according to the computer models. That means that with routine screening, which leads to a 15% lower risk of death from breast cancer, a woman's absolute risk drops to 2.6%. Small numbers in either case. Put another way, the panel concluded, the benefit of routine mammograms for women...
...more immediate issue for many cancer doctors is not that mammograms may work better in some age groups than in others. What worries experts is that the new guidelines could result in fewer women getting screened overall. Already one-third of American women who should be getting annual mammograms do not get screened. Since 1990, the death rate from breast cancer among women under 50 has been declining, 3% each year, in large part because of the expanded screening guidelines. "[The new recommendations] may erode some of the advances we had made in reducing breast-cancer mortality," says Dr. Therese...
...Deana Rich's part, she plans to continue with her annual screenings, even if at some point she ends up paying for them herself. "It's just too scary not to get mammograms," she says. "I know it's not the be all and end all, but it is one screening tool that we do have...
...think what is removed is an anxiety around a very specific presentation of sex,” says Eugene Tan, community engagement director of The Theater Offensive, which recently presented the 18th annual Queer Theater Festival, “Out on The Edge.” “I think a lot of burlesque is interested in a very polished version of sex and in that way it’s related...