mammograms

The darling of the National Organization for Women, turns out to be an anti-science kook: Brown responded to the release of the clip by courageously coming out against cancer:

So, these new mammogram guidelines came out and apparantly they are very controversial. On my way to work I was listening a radio program about it, and the doctor who was speaking for the people who wrote the new guidelines was viciously attacked, with all kinds of nasty aspersions thrown at...

It certainly would seem so since all x-rays pose a cancer risk. The lastest evidence reported in the current issue of The Lancet by Amy Berrington de González and Sarah Darby found that in Britain the risk of anyone up to the age of 75 getting cancer from diagnostic X-rays was about 0.6%. This...