Frankly, any medical test is only as good as the professionals that are at the controls. Negative experiences such as the one I had is a perfect example of what happens when you are dealing with diagnosticians who know just enough to be dangerous. Do mammograms save lives? Sure they do. Do they give false positives on occasions that causes women to undergo procedures that they don't need? Yes to that also. They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure though. What we really need to stress is living a healthy lifestyle, keeping your weight down, exercising and eating healthy is what we can all do to help keep ourselves healthy. Whether it's a person with a family or genetic predisposition for cancer or like me and carry a strong family predisposition for heart disease and already has Rheumatic Heart disease, the more we do to tip the scales in our favor, the healthier our bodies are the better our chances to live long and prosper when problems do pop up.
right back atcha Diva..... 
