This New York Times article gives the same scary media narrative repeated everywhere else in the past few days: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/health/18doctors.html?_r=1&hp "Despite new recommendations that most women start breast screening at 50 rather than 40, many doctors said Tuesday that they were simply not ready to make such a drastic change. “It’s kind of hard to suggest that we should stop examining our patients and screening them,” said Dr. Annekathryn Goodman, director of the fellowship program in gynecological oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital
See the article here:
New mammogram recommendations don’t out most women at increased risk
