A disillusionment of sorts – mammogram results.

For decades now, doctors and health experts have been impressing upon the general public about the importance of prevention instead of cure. Many responsible individuals have been dutifully following this advice too, regardless of the money involved or the time taken to undergo certain important tests or scans. For so many years now, women have been told to undergo mammogram test regularly to check breast cancer in time, instead of discovering the dreaded disease when it is too late for any corrective steps.

But the latest findings reveal something else altogether that might be reassuring to those women that do not undergo any such tests. Medical findings show that the percentage of women becoming victims to breast cancer have not changed even after periodic checkups done by many women. What does this show? Does it show that all those repeated scans

could be harming your body and making you vulnerable to the disease or does it show that even after regular scans, chances of falling victim to the dreaded cancer between two checkups does exist? As it is, men have been told not to undergo too many prostate cancer checkups in view of the serious side effects like impotence and incontinence. What is the right path?

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