Some cancer screening tests have been so well proven to save lives, like the colonoscopy, that if you don't get one, you need more than your colon examined (to borrow from an old Cancer Society slogan about mammograms). But it's now clear that mammograms don't fit into guilt-trip status anymore. Using radiation to find lumps in the breast that are too small to feel with your hands has only a slight benefit.
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