[0:03:15] ... was it brought in whether task force or not oncologists. Or breast cancer is specialist there was a big mistake. Do do recommendation is to really. Women over forty have to get tested and get the mammogram this is a totally different discussion. And with the pap smear -- cervical cancer. ...
[0:03:36] ... may need to get a baseline mammogram at 35 those the American Cancer Society guidelines that. And there's still standing by -- times for standing by. One in 69 women between forty and 49 get breast cancer. To not be screening them is a major disservice and they we will lose lives. ...
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[0:04:49] ... fifty shouldn't have mammograms you know my wife -- As a breast cancer survivor she was diagnosed. By a mammogram. Went for an operation the cancer had already spread to maverick brand has saved her life. But yet this. Preventive panel that the bill says this healthcare bill ...
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[0:00:02] ... the US preventative services task force says women shouldn't get routine breast cancer screenings until -- fifty. -- some in congress wondering if this is a sign of what health care rationing could look like. ...
[0:00:31] ... That is congresswoman -- herself a breast cancer survivor so. What is preventive medicine fit into the health care reform debate. Joining us now is ambassador Nancy Brinker founder of ...
[0:02:13] ... I was lucky I had one when I was 37 had breast cancer and and and part that's one alive today and I'm very very grateful. I wouldn't want to deny that right you know ...
[0:02:45] ... you're not gonna changer and organization guidelines the American Cancer Society said they're not gonna change their guidelines is either but there are worries that. May be insurers or doctors are gonna ...
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[0:03:50] ... talked with a number of women. Who had been diagnosed. With breast cancer well before fifty. And one very close friend lost her mother to breast cancer in 48 and the fact that they are playing around. With excessive government control and this administration and regrettably this congress has ...
[0:05:07] ... Specter and because you have had. A battle a personal battle with cancer yourself for years -- Why all of the mammogram studies set off a political storm and that -- secretary Sebelius backed away ...
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[0:00:00] ... Cover health care reform this week to new cancer screening the study is became part of the argument. First the government task force recommended women delay starting routine mammograms from age forty to age fifty. And then an association of medical experts that women could delay there for a screening for cervical cancer until age 21 and then be -- less often. Joining us now to sort through this is doctor Bernadine Healy the first woman to have the National Institutes of Health. She is now health editor for US news and world report and he comes to us from Cleveland. Doctor -- Let's start with -- some practical advice for woman met many of whom I'm sure are understandably confused at the end of this week. What would you tell a woman patient -- no particular history of breast cancer what she should do about. ...
[0:01:24] ... with this this will increase the number of women dying of breast cancer. Women in their forties have a very aggressive kind breast cancer and they tend to progressed fast. And -- to not screen women in that age group. Is astounding to me and it goes against. The bulk of of the individuals or actually caring for patients you may save some money Chris. Which are not gonna save lives and what would you tell a young woman about when she should start getting pap tests -- the -- for cervical cancer. I think I I think the new recommendations that came out of the a copper the American society of will be July and is very responsible and reasonable because we understand. Cervical cancer we know and it starts to sexually transmitted disease. It takes awhile to turn into cancer you don't just get that infection and suddenly get cancer usually takes about ten sometimes twenty years. Unless you're immune suppressed so I think that to spread it out to two years ...
[0:03:35] ... for the most part and on oncology. -- or even in breast cancer or cervical cancer. It gets information from those groups but ultimately comes up with models you know Chris there's really -- no new information here. It's a different way of looking at the same problem. Their perspective this if you can cut in half the money we're spending on on on screening for breast cancer. And and lose only you know maybe. 10% 20% of -- benefit that's a good trade off a Doctor Who is responsible ...
[0:05:12] ... other groups like the obstetrician and gynecologist in the oncologists and the cancer society. That would be fine but they didn't what doctors have had up until now. Is a choice they've had a number ...
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[0:00:01] ... a lot of women I know that it young women have breast cancer and this is breast cancer what was breast cancer awareness -- but every month should be. Then these recommendations come out this week from this preventative task force although we don't know who's on the task force at. Saying don't get your mammogram at forty. Started fifty which is a full ten year spread which if you're not really good -- self exam leaves you at risk for breast cancer potentially. And when it comes to cervical screenings that you shouldn't start that till you're 21. Even for young women who may ...
[0:01:30] ... can do I can to protect her against. -- dying from breast cancer and the best way to do that. Is to pick it up early now I don't give a damn if it's only one in thirteen hundred or one and 1600. That is maybe. The fact is that when mammograms were introduced the death rate from cancer breast cancer dropped by 30%. Those are the fact. Now I commandN -- a woman and I it. Tell her how to examine her breast and I encourage her to do it there are statistics that say it doesn't matter but I can KU. From my own experience. That there are many women who have detected. They're breast cancer themselves you know what I didn't show up on -- have little I don't know -- they've they've even before they had ...
[0:03:00] ... there any other. Active females in your family who have had breast cancer I mean that's a very important -- and I. Tell my patients. At the age of forty. To start getting a mammogram. ...
[0:03:42] ... women. Whose lives have been saved by the early detection of breast cancer and -- same is true. For the cervical cancer. I tell my patients that when a woman become sexually active. She should start getting the cervical screening. And mind that we're ...
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[0:00:04] ... year. The starting at age fifty can happen every other year. Several cancer it the new guidelines say at age 21. A woman should start having pap smear. She can have it every other year ...
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[0:00:00] ... We have a long way to go. In understanding breast cancer it's many different diseases the genetics of variable we only -- beginning to scratch the surface. And the drugs that are coming along that tend to be genetically directed. In their early phases. So the fact that we have 40000 women still dying of breast cancer in this country despite the best we have the despite. Despite tomography despite. The medicines that we can offer women. Boy we ...
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[0:00:00] ... think one thing that people should put in perspective. Is that breast cancer. It affects a 180000. Women a year and it kills 40000. And mammograms save lives particularly in women in their forties. In contrast. Cervical cancer. Basic -- cancer affects 11000 women and kills 3000. And these guidelines will in no way effect -- ...
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