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Posted: November 17, 2009 at 5:17 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “The benefits are less and the harms are greater when screening starts in the 40s,” Dr. Diana Petitti, vice chair of the government panel of doctors and scientists that concluded that most women don’t need a mammogram in their 40s.
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