False health alarms change you?

[RoadRaven]

I had a false positive mammogram this summer, and I've decided I'm not going to have any more mammos. All the reading that I did as a result, regarding breast cancer detection and treatment, made me decide that if I get a palpable lump, then I get a lumpectomy, and that's it. To me, the odds vs. the known ill effects don't support doing anything else.

This is what a work colleague of mine believes -she said as much virtually word for word when another colleague came back from a mammo last year and I said I guess I would have to start thinking about having one soon as I am over 40 now...

She reckons by the time self-examinatin finds a lump, it is too late for anything but operation, and that mammos are too uncomfortable and inaccurate and put women through too much anguish to waste her energy on.

I still don't know what I will do, but in the meantime do the self-examination when I remember...