An interesting study in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine shows that mammograms may save an occasional life but mammograms are not cost effective for the masses. The liklihood of a 50 year old woman dying from breast cancer in the next ten years is 0.5%. A mammogram screening program has a marginal affect on that percentage. The cost of screening mammograms is > $7.8 billion/year.
Don’t worry guys the same is true of prostate screening.
What is good for the goose may not be so good for the gander…
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