MY MAMMOGRAM WAITING GAME
a year for seven years after I turned 40, a doctor would invariably tell me I needed a mammogram. Every year I said no, invoking the recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force, which say mammograms before age 50 aren’t usually necessary. Then in March 2017, when I was 47, I found a tumor. Sheepishly, I called my ob-gyn and asked for one of those referrals I’d been tossing in the trash. But now that I had something to justify a mammogram, getting one turned
