[Regarding "What price reassurance? The high cost of routine mammography in younger women," May 2015 Contemporary OB/GYN:] I read your article with a great deal of interest and also some amusement. It could have been scripted by any insurance company with the ultimate objective of saving money, not saving lives. My patients are more important to me. Every time I find an early breast cancer in a young women, I am so thankful that I have encouraged that individual to get a mammogram. Perhaps we better look at other ways to save money. Unless there is another way to diagnose breast cancer early in younger women, I will continue ordering screening mammograms and follow up appropriately. There are too many 40-year-old women diagnosed with breast cancer to ignore.
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