Study questions yearly mammograms
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Editor’s note: The Empowered Patient is a regular feature from CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen that helps put you in the driver’s seat when it comes to health care. (CNN) — When the time rolls around for Kelly Bleyer’s annual mammogram, she hears two voices in her head: her gynecologist, who says she absolutely must have a mammogram every single year, and her father-in-law, who urges her to get a mammogram every other year instead. While most women would listen to their gynecologist, Kelly’s father-in-law isn’t just anyone: He’s the co-author of a new mammography study in the New England Journal of Medicine, and he says he believes passionately that mammograms might be making women sick — maybe even killing them. “I really don’t know what to do,” says Bleyer, 50, an anchor and health reporter at KBND radio in Bend, Oregon.
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