Breast health advice is taken to task

I’m a 31-year-old woman who has had a mammogram once a year since I was 12, as breast cancer runs in my family. The fact that a “task force” is recommending that women not perform self-examinations is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard (11/17, A1, “Breast health advice shifts”).
 
I can only hope and pray that women of all ages who read this article realize what nonsense this is and do what they can to prevent this horrible disease.

Tonia Weisgerber 
North Kansas City

How appropriate to have the reckless breast cancer article jump to the obituary page, where we have seen far too many of our loved ones in their 40s who fell victim to this terrible disease.

The Star would have been more responsible to headline the story as “Experts denounce task force recommendations.”

Justin Stanley
Kansas City

Comments

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

From now on I am taking my truck to my lawyer for genral maintenance since they seem to be the experts in all subject areas.
Nothing funnnier than deadbeat ambulance chasers claiming to know more about health care than freaking M.D.

[Kate]

Neither breast nor cervical cancer runs in my family. My mother and aunts, who are in their 70’s and 80’s, are healthy and active. So my yearly exams always seem like a waste of time. I can see myself eventually rationalizing away the need for them entirely based on these new guidelines (including the ones that were released today for pap tests). I’d like to think I’m a better, more self-disciplined person than that . . . but I’m not. And neither are a lot of other women.

These new guidelines are going to be bad for us.

[Kee]

Girls just a "taste" of things to come under Obamanation Care. Can you spell r a t i o n i n g? Can you spell d e a t h p a n e l? And they said it couldn't be true!