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In “No guideline for all in detecting breast cancer, study says” (News, May 16), you reported on the American Cancer Society’s latest guidelines downplaying the importance of women’s self-breast exams in identifying early breast cancer. If I had followed those new guidelines, the Stage 1 breast cancer that I found in a self-exam would not have been discovered until my next scheduled mammogram in October. By October, my Stage 1 cancer could easily have spread to the life-threatening Stage 2 or Stage 3 levels. Even if I am an aberration, self-exams cost nothing and do no harm.
Why stop recommending such a practice? Women, choose to examine your breasts each month.
