'I want my mammograms!'

Courtesy CNN.com - Health  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 8:52am

A government task force says women in their 40s don't need annual mammograms, but Sara Fought would beg to differ: She says she's alive today because a routine mammogram found cancer when she was 42.



 

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