Mammograms: Pressing the issue

By William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

With the barrage of media hype surrounding breast cancer (and you're hearing more lately because this is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month), it's no wonder women often cite it as their primary health concern.

All this worry (and "awareness") has made breast cancer screening an enormous business. Women have been terrorized into having repeated mammograms, manual breast examinations, light exams, and anything else that can be dreamed up to get an early diagnosis.

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