Nearly 90% of women consider mammograms important to their health, well-being: Poll

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According to a recent poll of 1,000 American voters conducted for the American College of Radiology, nearly 9-in-10 women reported that having a regular mammogram gave them a feeling of control over their own health care. Nearly 90 percent of women who had a mammogram considered mammograms important to their health and well-being.

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"Ok. Tech writers. It's comin up ta October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As you know, all the hospitals are stuck with useless dinosaurs called mammography units. These machines have used up ALL the money available for detecting breast cancer. Yes, I know, they don't work. True. The number of false negatives given by mammograms is ridiculously high. Yes, yes, you don't have to tell me that there are much much better machines for detecting breast cancer, especially dense breast tissue and fibrocystic tissue.
But here is the bottom line: it is called "money." There is no way hospitals all over the world can afford the correct machine ....there is a correct machine out there past the research stage...ready to detect cancer in breasts both fibrous and dense and "normal"...ya ya...whatever. Trillions and gazillions have already been paid, contracts are in place everywhere to keep updating the ultimately useless mammogram machine. So.

Here is your directive: I have been asked to produce 'research' to support these antiques. Can't sell em to other hospitals...everybody has enough of them already. So we gotta keep em. We got to get some research going that assures women out there that they are not as useless as they know them to be. we gotta get these ladies to LOVE mammograms as a means of 'saving their lives." With this NEW research we can relieve hospitals all over the world of the pressure they are currently under. this is the pressure created by all these women who are angry at the fact mammograms are unable to detect cancer in dense and fibrocystic breasts. At the high rate of false negatives for breast cancer delivered by mammograms. So: money is no object! Get that 'research' going!! We are gonna need it."