George Lakoff, AlterNet. November 25, 2009. Cost-benefit analysis can kill. Scaling back on mammograms, as a government task force suggested, could result in 47,000 unnecessary deaths.
Devona Walker, The Loop. November 23, 2009. Black women get breast cancer at younger ages, but the new breast-cancer guidelines entirely ignore that fact. This is the very definition of institutionalized racism.
Abby Christopher, AlterNet. December 4, 2008. More radiologists are shying away from breast imaging, creating longer waits that may be leading women to put off or forgo screenings.
