I was recently reading an article in the New York Times about the safety of mammograms for women with a high risk of breast cancer as a preventative strategy. What does getting a mammogram have to do with prevention? If cancer shows up on the mammogram does that not mean that the patient already has cancer? I don't see any prevention in that scenario at all. The same geos for the "preventative" screenings for heart disease, colon cancer, and diabetes. It's far from prevention and it's ridiculuos to use the word.
The other question is how many doctors are looking that the research on how lifestyle choices are showing up as causal factors for breast cancer? There's A LOT of it and if you make bad lifestyle choices daily of course your risk for cancer is going to go up. It would make more sense to educate these "high risk" women at a young age about how their lifestyle can increase their risk of breast as opposed to starting mammograms early. This is absolutely why doctors need to stop focusing on drugs and surgery and instead start educating their patients on lifestyle. Is your doctor offering you lifestyle solutions? Eat Well--Move Well--Think Well.
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