Women should get a mammogram every other year starting at age 40, according to new guidance issued Tuesday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
It’s a considerable drop in age from the prior recommendations, which said women should start getting biennial screenings no later than age 50 and suggested that women in their 40s could talk to their doctor about getting screened.
The change, first released as a draft last year, is a response to rising cancer rates among women in their 40s, as well as evidence that earlier mammograms help save lives. The rate of breast cancer among women ages 40 to 49 increased 2% per year, on average, from 2015 to 2019, according to the National Cancer Institute.
I’m hopeful that this is part of a larger shift to preventative healthcare as the norm.
You can thank animal protein/dairy for this.
“Research suggests that following a plant-based diet may reduce your risk of certain types of cancer.”
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cancer-fighting-foods
“A study in over 76,000 people found that following a healthy plant-based diet could be associated with a lower risk of breast cancer.”
Yeah these studies don’t in any way substantiate the conclusion, “You can thank animal protein/dairy for this.” That’s a gross misunderstanding of the actual conclusions drawn in each of them. That Healthline article also draws/implies false conclusions from the studies it cites.
I’m citing zero evidence here, but what has changed over time (meat and dairy have been consumed and in some cases even heavily relied upon for tens of thousands of years) is exposure to the plastics and other petroleum derivatives that now pervade our environments.
Yep, plastic can be an endocrine disruptor which can have all sorts of long term consequences
People have eatin animal protein and dairy for centuries, but it’s only now increasing cancer rates? … Yea, no. That’s not how it works.
Maybe modern factory farming produces slightly more dangerous meat, but that’s a problem with factory farming, not with being an omnivore.
