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Our family has no other incidence of breast cancer.  My daughter is 39 years old and was diagnosed with metastic breast cancer last February (2009).... she had never had a mammogram but found the lump herself.  The prognosis after biopsy and scans was that the type is slow growing so she probably had it progressing through her body for around 8 years.  (through 3 pregnancies and breast feeding).   OK - so there are a lot of false positives but maybe we should do earlier baseline mammograms, like starting at age 25 and do them every 5 years, then switch to every 2 years at age 40 or whatever.  ANY check would have found this one sooner, when it was still at the lump stage, before it began to move to her lungs and liver and lymph. The treatment would have been cheaper, easier to her insurance, to her, her family, and to society.  Doing less is not better. 

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