The Big Squeeze

Author: Handel Reynolds
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B008L42V7C
Category: Medical

The Big Squeeze: A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal age to start getting mammograms. Download The Big Squeeze medical books for free.
While some praised the new recommendation as sensible given the smaller benefit women under fifty derive from mammography, many women's groups, health care advocates, and individual women saw the guidelines as privileging financial considerations over women's health and a setback to decades-long efforts to reduce the mortality rate of breast cancer.In The Big Squeeze, Dr. Handel Reynolds, a practicing radiologi Get The Big Squeeze our bestseller medical books.

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While some praised the new recommendation as sensible given the smaller benefit women under fifty derive from mammography, many women's groups, health care advocates, and individual women saw the guidelines as privileging financial considerations over women's health and a setback to decades-long efforts to reduce the mortality rate of breast cancer Handel Reynolds, a practicing radiologi

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