~ Interesting! ~

I heard on the news today interesting new medical opinions about mammograms. I'm sure many disagree with the new suggestions for women waiting until they are 50 to get their first mammogram and even then getting one every few years. But I have to agree with some of the statements that were made with this announcement. It was 2 1/2 years ago when I posted this blog with my own opinion not too far off what this new medical opinion is.

I know many are against this new idea as it has been been said to us for so many years that we all need mammograms at age 40 and every year thereafter and how important self-exams are. I am still for self-exams as that doesn't cost anything and doesn't involve needless mammograms that lead to possibly more needless tests, such as long as women who do them do not get all upset about a lump they find until they've seen their doctor and determine if it really something to be concerned about (hopefully without a lot of excessive testing). Many women have lumpy breasts until they have reached midlife and this may cause some undue stress.

Since I am already over 50 and have a family history of cancer with my sister being a breast cancer survivor I will still get my mammogram every year or so, but if I were younger and there was no family history, I'd probably wait. But that is just me, everyone can form their own opinion, and perhaps think outside the conventional thinking that we've all been taught to follow.

Off my soap box now about that....only one more week until youngest daughter comes home for Thanksgiving. I'm really looking forward to that and seeing my other daughter and her fiance' the next week. I'm really excited about seeing New Moon too! I am trying not to get my expectations too high as I don't want to be disappointed like I was at the last Harry Potter movie. Hopefully it will be just as good as Twilight.