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Originally Posted by WVU alpha phi
These new recommendations are infuriating to me. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time when she was 46. We had no previous cases of cancer in our family. She recognized a lump through a self exam and then went for a mammogram (and always went for annual mammograms too). If she had waited until she was 50 like these new guidelines are suggesting, I don't want to think what might have happened. My gyno has told me since my mom got her first diagnosis at a younger age and she was pre-menstrual, I should start getting annual mammograms as young as 30.
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Yes...you should start screening 10 years before your mom was diagnosed. You don't fall into the category of patients with no risk factors that would begin screening at age 50.