The Benefits Of Mammograms

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With the emerging advances in the field of medicine, more people today in the US are getting diagnostic treatments such as cancer. However, some of these treatments are creating pathways for diseases to emerge or may not be accurate in detecting these diseases. In other words some of the tests that are done can be false positive. Now the question remains whether should someone get diagnosed for a disease that they may or may not have? For example according to the New York American Society, women should be recommended to fewer mammograms. It is noted that women should having a mammogram at age forty-five and continue to do so until age fifty-four (previously the clinical breast exams should be done at age forty). Despite what age women should