21-04-2015 20:46 via kerngoldenempire.com

Federal panel updates mammogram recommendations

(NBC News)- A committee that's been attacked for its controversial mammogram recommendations for half a decade clarified that advice Monday, saying they have been misunderstood.The panel says women in their 40s can get mammograms every year if they want to, but said it really needs to be up to a woman to decide if she wants to risk the anxiety of getting a false positive result — one showing a breast lump that turns out not to be cancer, after all.So the recommendations remain the sa
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