Anchorage woman fears new mammogram recommendation
Posted by Nathan Switzer on Tue, Feb 23, 2010
Sheila Reilly went on record last November as someone who is glad that the American Cancer Society recommends screening for women age 40 and older. According to a new recommendation by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, she shouldn't have had a mammogram in her 40's.
She was interviewed by Ellen Lockyear at APRN last December. The podcast is available at KSKA.org and is also available here for download. Here is the lead in to her story, which was posted December 7, 2009:
The U.S. Senate has voted to require health insurance companies to provide free mammograms and other preventive services to women with a 61 - 39 vote during health care reform discussions. This on the heels of new information released by a federal advisory panel last month indicating that women don't need mammograms before age 50. The vote may override the panel's recommendations. Meanwhile, women are questioning the new guidelines, and want more information.
Ellen Lockyer, APRN - Anchorage
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