Melissa Etheridge weighs into mammogram debate

Read More ]"/> Breast cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge weighed in on the controversy in Hollywood over the new US mammogram guidance.

Etheridge, 48, joined fellow stars and survivors, Olivia Newton John and Jaclyn Smith, in cautioning against the guidance which raises the age of a woman’s first mammogram screening from 40 to 50.

Etheridge, who was attending the American Music Awards, said: “We have gotten ourselves into a big, deep hole in the way that we look at healthcare. We are in a system where they get money when we’re sick. That’s never going to work for us.”

Also recommended in the new guidelines was the abandonment of breast self-examination (BSE) which has become a stalwart in the face of the unknowns of a common and sometimes fatal disease.

Etheridge added: “So when someone says, ‘You don’t need a mammogram until you’re 50,’ you take charge of that. I don’t trust any of that.”

source: Splash News

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