The value of my life
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health/story/1337124.html
If I'd followed this advice I'd be dead now. My cancer was caught by a base-line mammogram when I was 39.
The scientific analysis also found that to save one woman's life, 1,904 women need to have mammograms starting at age 40 over the course of a decade -- even though most of them aren't at risk of getting cancer.
When they say that one life isn't worth the economic cost of 2,000 mammograms - and this is about economic cost - understand that by this analysis I am one of the lives not worth saving.
If I'd followed this advice I'd be dead now. My cancer was caught by a base-line mammogram when I was 39.
The scientific analysis also found that to save one woman's life, 1,904 women need to have mammograms starting at age 40 over the course of a decade -- even though most of them aren't at risk of getting cancer.
When they say that one life isn't worth the economic cost of 2,000 mammograms - and this is about economic cost - understand that by this analysis I am one of the lives not worth saving.