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"Breast Cancer Screening Qs Answered"
By: Dr. Otis Brawley
Source: CNN

The month of October is dedicated to breast cancer awareness. Dr. Otis Brawley notified CNN news there may be a solution to avoid breast cancer. He is a cancer expert, author, and chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. In the 1960s, doctors speculated mammography screening would cure breast cancer patients. In order to recover, a patient needed the mammography screening to be combined with effective treatment and an early detection of breast cancer. Statistics proved their theory considering a loophole. After various trials (eight large clinical trials) doctors verified screening does save the lives of women at the age of fifty to sixty-nine. Women around the age of forty to forty-nine, unfortunately with not be cured after using the mammography screening (data was unclear). Medical organizations recommend one to start screening ate age forty or fifty; most of those organizations advocate yearly screenings or every two years. Dr. Brawley answers several questions in the article, such as: Why is mammography a better test for older women? He declares older women tend to be cancer patients and due to their age the mammogram it is easier to detect the cancer (cancer appears white in the X-ray). Research based data proves that 20%-35% of deaths for women aged 50-70 are reduced. Younger aged women do not have that option because screening is inadequate (20- 40 aged). Women should not do screening until they reach the age fifty.