Is it more proper for a doctor to ask for a sonogram verses a mammogram in a woman under age 35 ?

Question

I understand the sonogram is a better diagnostic tool for women under 35 in breast cancer detection. Since mammogram radiation can cause cancer, is it then doing harm to a patient to use mammograms as the diagnostic tool when a sonogram is far more effective and causes no harm? Is it medical malpractice then for a doctor to order a mammogram which can cause harm and possibley eventually death to a patient under 35 before ordering a sonogram?

Answer 1

From the top...

The risks of getting "cancer" from the radiation in the mammogram is virtually nil. The chances of dying of breast cancer if not caught in time is substantially higher. So, you play the odds, and you get mammograms. And, yes, you recite the "ode to a mammogram" poem that your grandma gave you.

The ultrasound / sonogram is a poor substitute. It is one more tool to look at a suspicious area. I suspect that it would be tougher to use a sonogram at your age as a "baseline" to compare your later films.

Personally, if I was a doctor, I'd suggest that you go find another doctor. You obviously don't trust your doctor, and using the term "malpractice" in a doctor's office is like using the "n" word at a NAACP convention.

Signed,
a guy whose wife had breast cancer last summer, and whose mother in law is dying of it.

Answer 2

Women under 35 years are usually suggested to get a sonogram done because the breast tissue is very dense in young women and mammogram is less sensitive.
I dont think that mammogram radiation causes cancer.

Answer 3

No. even even with the incontrovertible fact that mammography is ineffective it could teach issues each and every now and then. I thank God my rfile scheduled a mammography for me on the age of 28. I had a cancerous lump that became caught very early. notwithstanding in case you get maximum cancers after the mammography there is not any thank you to coach it wasn't there in the previous. the rationalization it rather is unreliable in the previous the age of 35 is with the help of the fact young women have denser breast tissue and subsequently cancers could be tougher to stumble on. Your wide-unfold practitioner erred on the edge of warning. could you sense it became malpractice if maximum cancers became got here across? I doubt it.

Answer 4

You are just determined to sue somebody.


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