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October 6. "Early detection saves lives". "Get your mammogram to prevent cancer". We hear phrases like this every October and they are just plain wrong.
FACT: Mammograms don't prevent cancer they detect cancer that is already there!!! 1/
FACT: Mammograms don't prevent cancer they detect cancer that is already there!!! 1/
And sometimes they don't even do that: breast density can obscure cancer; lobular and inflammatory breast cancers are often missed on mammos; radiologists reading a mammogram can miss a cancer. 2/
And, as I mentioned in an earlier post, sometimes cancer metastasizes when it is too small to even be seen on a mammo (so there goes that "early detection saves lives" thing). 3/
