tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13598068.post115323606766094548..comments2023-06-12T16:23:02.561-05:00Comments on Red Ink: Texas: An important health advisory for womenRorschachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11848860674369931761noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13598068.post-1153847909918914272006-07-25T12:18:00.000-05:002006-07-25T12:18:00.000-05:00TXGoodie, not exactly. There are two other testing...TXGoodie, not exactly. There are two other testing procedures that can be run instead of a mammogram, one is less sensitive (ultrasound) and won't pick up the smallest of tumors, the other is more expensive than mammograms (MRI with Gadolinium Contrast), but neither use ionizing radiation which is the issue. BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 make you extremely sensitive to DNA damage. conventional wisdom was to test you more often if you had a family history (and therefore likely to have one or both of these genetic defects) to catch incipient cancers before they got too far along, but they did not take into account the extra damage that the x-rays themselves might do. This study has tried to quantify the risks of the extra testing.<BR/><BR/>This really underscores the need to have genetic testing done if there is a family history of these cancers and to take into account the risks of the extra testing that may be required and consider any alternatives that may exist to that testing.Rorschachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11848860674369931761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13598068.post-1153846686297245482006-07-25T11:58:00.000-05:002006-07-25T11:58:00.000-05:00Damned if you do, damned if you don't.Damned if you do, damned if you don't.TxGoodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13726454503329795079noreply@blogger.com