[Laurel]

Thank God for this study, Jean. Thanks for this welcomed post! I just think it is nuts to speak of eliminating Mammos or pushing back their recommended onset ages. So many of us here have been saved by mammos that these cost saving recommendations send me into spasms of frothing at the mouth fury! Honestly, what defense do we have against this disease if mammograms are taken away or recommended to begin at a later age? What? So we must be relegated back to the stone age of self breast exams? Oh, there's a winner! I would be toast had not my 9th routine mammo found calcifications that prompted a biopsy. I literally thank God for mammograms. Until there is something better, I say, " give us our mammos at forty or condemn us to certain death!"

BTW, yes, I am standing on this most sturdy soap box I found at a wonderful flea market in Lancaster County.....