From FLIR
There are several reasons why the current breast cancer detection and treatment system in place in the United States is failing in its ability to serve all women in a way that is non-injurious and minimally invasive. First, radiation is cumulative and injurious, especially in younger breasts. Second, mammography has a false negative rate between 15% and 20%, highest in younger women with dense breast tissue where the more aggressive breast cancers originate. Third, only 60% of women with health insurance get annual mammography and without insurance, that number drops to a low of 12.5% in Texas. While radical surgery initially was thought to "get it all," surgery, no matter how minimally invasive, does nothing if the patient has metastatic (cancer that has spread) disease. Chemotherapy is toxic and very expensive, and may predispose patients to different cancers in the future. For stage four metastatic cancers, there are virtually no survivors.
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