Women, Great News: Breast Cancer False Positives Don't Harm Us for Life!
Not sure I agree with t his but a new study has found that women who get false positives on mammograms only suffer for a short time. It doesn't affect their overall well-being. As someone who (twice) received positive positives, I suppose I can't really comment on this. But I can't believe that some women aren't, if not, scarred for life, at least thinking about life a little differently after that. According to newswise.com, " Dartmouth researchers have found that the anxiety experienced with a false-positive mammogram is temporary and does not negatively impact a woman’s overall well-being." The Web site goes on to note that a nywhere from 40 to 60 percent of women who undergo routine screening mammography during a ten-year period will experience a false-positive mammogram (guess I beat the stats!). Such mammograms require additional testing, sometimes involving a biopsy, to confirm that cancer is not present. Researchers have suspected that in...