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For more than 90 minutes, a seemingly-unending stream of people said their name and that they opposed the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measles outbreak that \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/07/nine-measles-cases-tied-to-disneyland-parks/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/07/nine-measles-cases-tied-to-disneyland-parks/\" target=\"_blank\">originated in Disneyland \u003c/a>put vaccines -- and the people who voluntarily refuse them -- in the spotlight. Over the past months efforts to increase vaccination have been applauded, the \"narrative has felt very pro-vaccination,\" Myers said. \"All of a sudden this week, this showing of people who felt very passionately the other way about it … has temporarily shifted the narrative and maybe did take some people aback about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a personal freedom issue that I think is resounding,\" said Marisa Lagos. 'You're not really seeing the legislators debating the merits of vaccines. … The debate this week was over whether are you then taking away another kid's rights to a quality education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a third group -- the kids (and adults, too) who are immuno-compromised, who can't be vaccinated for medical reasons. They rely on the rest of us for protection. In order to get to \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/23/5-things-you-should-know-about-vaccines/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/23/5-things-you-should-know-about-vaccines/\" target=\"_blank\">herd immunity\u003c/a>, a community needs high vaccination rates. For measles, that's well above 92 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 277 co-authors Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) and Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) say they wrote this bill to increase vaccination rates in California. 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You don't find middle ground in the vaccination debate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This may be true, but there are other options -- such as \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/24/beyond-abolishing-the-personal-belief-exemption-to-raise-vaccination-rates/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/24/beyond-abolishing-the-personal-belief-exemption-to-raise-vaccination-rates/\" target=\"_blank\">tightening up the requirements \u003c/a>to obtain a personal belief exemption.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some vaccine supporters are highly critical of the approach \"\u003ca title=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/why-californias-approach-to-tightening-vaccine-rules-could-backfire.html?referrer=&abt=0002&abg=1\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/why-californias-approach-to-tightening-vaccine-rules-could-backfire.html?referrer=&abt=0002&abg=1\" target=\"_blank\">blundering state legislators\u003c/a>\" have taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard some people say that they felt like even taking up this issue was a political miscalculation by Sen. 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They found that women who had breast-fed were more likely to develop a more common -- and more easily treatable -- kind of tumor, known as luminal A subtype, which includes estrogen-receptor positive tumors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These tumors are less likely to spread, to metastasize, and they're treatable with hormonal therapy such as tamoxifen,\" Kwan said. \"Because of this, they have better prognosis. Women who have luminal A tumors are more likely to survive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study was published in the \u003ca title=\"http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/7/djv087.abstract?sid=d7434ffc-ae03-423d-b438-80acfd8f2a12\" href=\"http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/7/djv087.abstract?sid=d7434ffc-ae03-423d-b438-80acfd8f2a12\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of the National Cancer Institute\u003c/a> and was funded by the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwan said that breast-feeding \"can increase the maturation of the cells in the breast.\" She theorized that it may set up a \"molecular environment that makes a tumor more responsive to therapy, so women, in the end, are less likely to have a recurrence or die from their disease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts not affiliated with the study called it interesting, but noted that it was conducted among a fairly small sample of women. Of the 1,600 women in the study, 383 had a recurrence of cancer during the nine-year study period, and 290 women died of the disease. More than 200,000 women in the U.S. are \u003ca title=\"http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/detailedguide/breast-cancer-key-statistics\" href=\"http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/detailedguide/breast-cancer-key-statistics\" target=\"_blank\">projected to be diagnosed with breast cancer\u003c/a> in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a hypothesis that supports doing more research,\" said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer with the American Cancer Society. \"We can't take this study and tell women, 'Breast-feed, and you are more likely to get the easier-to-treat breast cancer.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intriguing Questions for African-American Women\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brawley also theorized that this study could have implications for African-American women who have higher rates of diagnosis of basal-type tumors, also called \"triple negative,\" which are more aggressive. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25011\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/04/RS8553_128959324.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-25011\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/04/RS8553_128959324-640x417.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Katherine Hobson,\u003c/strong> \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/04/20/401006116/federal-panel-revisits-contested-recommendation-on-mammograms\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/04/20/401006116/federal-panel-revisits-contested-recommendation-on-mammograms\" target=\"_blank\">NPR \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, I was among the scrum of reporters covering the controversial advice from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that women in their 40s think twice about regular mammograms. The task force pointed out that the net benefits in younger women were small and said women should weigh the pros and cons of screening before making a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The suggested changes to the updated mammography guidelines are small ones. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those guidelines kicked off a heated debate about the benefits and harms of mammography that is rekindled with every new study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn't yet 40 back then, but what I learned about mammograms stuck with me: I haven't yet had the test. I took to heart the warnings of the task force and of many other physicians that mammography has minuses as well as pluses. I wasn't so worried about a false positive result. But I was very concerned about overdiagnosis, or being diagnosed with and treated for a cancer that would never have caused me any harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->I'm now 43 and am thinking that I should get a mammogram. So when I found out the USPSTF was doing a routine update of its breast cancer screening recommendations, I hoped it would help me decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turns out, the suggested changes to the recommendations — which are in draft form and may be altered after a \u003ca href=\"http://screeningforbreastcancer.org/\" target=\"_blank\">public comment\u003c/a> period — are small ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is new? For the first time, the task force looked at the evidence behind 3-D mammography, also known as tomosynthesis. The USPSTF said there's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/24/325216641/3-d-mammography-finds-more-tumors-but-questions-remain\" target=\"_blank\">not enough evidence\u003c/a> to make a recommendation for or against using the technology to screen women. 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People with symptoms should be seen by a doctor, no matter their age. And these recommendations don't apply to women who have previously been diagnosed with the disease or who are at higher risk because of a genetic mutation or other condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to reaffirm the importance of mammography to help prevent death from breast cancer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Biography/Kirsten-Bibbins-Domingo\">Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo\u003c/a>, a physician at UC San Francisco and vice chairwoman of the USPSTF, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And mammograms do save lives in women between 40 and 49 — it's just that there's a disproportionate level of harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USPSTF's draft includes statistical models estimating the lifetime consequences of screening women from ages 50-74 and also from 40-74. For every 1,000 women screened, the model finds that screening women in their 40s means an estimated one additional breast cancer death averted (from eight to seven), but with 576 additional false positive tests (1,529 vs. 953), 58 unnecessary biopsies (204 vs. 146) and two additional overdiagnosed tumors (20 vs. 18).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft recommendations also repeat the USPSTF's earlier advice that women be screened every other year rather than annually, said Bibbins-Domingo. That time frame provides \"most of the benefits while minimizing the harm,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other Groups' Guidelines Differ\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guidelines from medical groups differ on when a woman should start regular screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Cancer Society, for example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cancer.org/healthy/findcancerearly/cancerscreeningguidelines/american-cancer-society-guidelines-for-the-early-detection-of-cancer\" target=\"_blank\">recommends\u003c/a> yearly mammograms starting at age 40. Richard Wender, chief cancer control officer of the ACS, says there's much common ground between the guidelines, however. \"The task force reconfirmed its conclusion that mammography reduced breast cancer deaths for women in their 40s,\" he said. The ACS is reviewing its own breast cancer screening guidelines this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for my fear of overdiagnosis? Wender said it's an issue, but the exact extent of the problem is unknown. And, he added, much of overdiagnosis happens in women with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/08/05/208239545/when-treating-abnormal-breast-cells-sometimes-less-is-more\" target=\"_blank\">ductal carcinoma in situ\u003c/a>, which is Stage 0 cancer that hasn't yet become invasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the not-so-far future, molecular tools may help physicians give those women a more accurate prognosis, Wender says, so those at lower risk can opt for less aggressive treatments — or simply watchful waiting. \"The next 10 years are going to be good news for helping women really make decisions about treatment, not just about screening,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why am I planning to get a mammogram this year? In part, simply because I'm a few years older. The 50-year cutoff isn't a clear line in the sand, and as Bibbins-Domingo told me, the value of the test increases with age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to be honest, the main change has little to do with the numbers. I now have a young daughter, and my fear of dying prematurely has become far, far stronger than my fear of getting chemo or even a mastectomy I might not need. I understand the statistics, but I'd feel like a total jerk if I didn't get screened and that unlucky statistic were me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the flip side, if my mammogram did show breast cancer and I was treated successfully, I'd probably be grateful I'd been screened, even if there was no way to know whether the treatment was necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, then and now, I weighed the benefits and the risks and made my own decision, which is exactly what the USPSTF suggests.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials have said vaccinations rates must be high to protect a population from infection. While measles has been declared eliminated from the U.S. for years, outbreaks still occur because the virus can be imported from overseas and spread among people who skip shots for personal reasons or who are too young to be immunized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Disneyland outbreak \"reminds us that we are part of a global medical community\" and the U.S. should help tame measles raging in many parts of the world, said Dr. Richard Wenzel, an infectious disease expert at Virginia Commonwealth University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. has experienced measles outbreaks in recent years, including a 2014 episode that sickened 383 people in Ohio's Amish country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Symptoms can appear up to two weeks after exposure and include fever, cough and watery eyes followed by a telltale rash. A measles outbreak is considered over when 42 days — or two incubation periods — have passed since the last onset of the rash. The most recent confirmed measles case in California had \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/Measles_Update_4-10-2015_public.pdf\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/Measles_Update_4-10-2015_public.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rash onset on March 2\u003c/a>, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As one of the world's international destinations, Disneyland was the perfect place to launch a widespread measles outbreak, health experts said. The theme parks attract tens of thousands of visitors from around the globe, who could then return home with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty people were exposed to measles while visiting or working at Disney theme parks in December. They then spread the virus to 30 family members. The rest caught measles in the community or from an unknown source, according to state health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disease detectives have said they likely may never find patient zero — or the person who triggered the outbreak — but believe it's someone who brought measles into the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_24949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/04/RS6837_149948672-e1429144072713.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-24949\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/04/RS6837_149948672-640x452.jpg\" alt=\"(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A bill that would eliminate the vaccine personal belief exemption stalled before the Senate Education Committee Wednesday in Sacramento. Lawmakers were deeply concerned that the bill would bar too many children from school. The bill's co-author, Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), asked the committee to delay a vote until next Wednesday after the committee chairwoman warned him he did not have enough votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan said he will use the time to address their concerns, possibly adding amendments to the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the bill, \u003ca title=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277\" href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277\" target=\"_blank\">SB277\u003c/a>, California would no longer permit any vaccine exemptions except a medical one, meaning virtually all children would have to be vaccinated in order to attend public or private school. Even home-schoolers who group together would be affected under the current language, one of the committee's complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several committee members expressed their support for vaccines, they were worried that the bill goes too far. \"I'm looking for the compelling state interest in doing something (this) draconian,\" said state Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley). \"If I'm reading the bill correctly, there's nothing you can do if you choose not to vaccinate your child,\" except home-school and then only with your own children.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hancock said that she wondered if this bill was the \"best way to build community consensus\" around increasing vaccination rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Committee chair Carol Liu (D-Glendale) pointedly asked Pan, \"How do you justify the public purpose of public safety and the right for everyone to have access\" to an education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would make California one of only three states -- along with West Virginia and Mississippi -- without a religious or philosophical exemption to vaccination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/30/vaccine-opt-out-rate-drops-first-time-since-1998-look-up-your-calif-school/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/30/vaccine-opt-out-rate-drops-first-time-since-1998-look-up-your-calif-school/\" target=\"_blank\">tiny minority of California schoolchildren\u003c/a> -- about 2.5 percent of the state's kindergartners this year -- have a personal belief exemption on file. But parents who support the exemption were out in full force at the hearing, testifying in opposition to the bill, just as they had turned out \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/bill-ending-personal-belief-exemption-for-vaccines-headed-for-key-vote\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/bill-ending-personal-belief-exemption-for-vaccines-headed-for-key-vote\" target=\"_blank\">last week \u003c/a>before the health committee. The health committee had voted 6-2 to advance the bill. Many parents said they would pull their kids out of school rather than meet a vaccine requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/30/look-up-the-vaccine-opt-out-rate-at-your-childs-school/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24970\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/04/lookup.jpg\" alt=\"lookup\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\">\u003c/a>Parents in support of the bill turned out as well, including \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/26/not-vaccinated-stay-home-from-school-says-marin-dad-of-leukemia-patient/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/26/not-vaccinated-stay-home-from-school-says-marin-dad-of-leukemia-patient/\" target=\"_blank\">Marin County father Carl Krawitt\u003c/a>, whose 7-year-old son is in remission from leukemia. The chemotherapy the boy received as treatment wiped out previous vaccine protection. He could not \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/13/parents-relieved-as-son-gets-first-post-leukemia-vaccines/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/13/parents-relieved-as-son-gets-first-post-leukemia-vaccines/\" target=\"_blank\">commence revaccination\u003c/a> until February, when his immune system had recovered sufficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that this is sound public health policy because it keeps our kids safe,\" Krawitt testified. \"You have a duty to legislate from solid evidence, not from fear, and keep our schools safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk of Backfire?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some supporters of vaccinations wonder if the move will backfire. Writing \u003ca title=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/why-californias-approach-to-tightening-vaccine-rules-could-backfire.html?referrer=&abt=0002&abg=1\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/why-californias-approach-to-tightening-vaccine-rules-could-backfire.html?referrer=&abt=0002&abg=1\" target=\"_blank\">in the New York Times\u003c/a> about the California bill, Dartmouth government professor Brendan Nyhan referred to the \"blundering approach state legislators there have taken\" and asserted that this \"direct attack on exemptions can rally the anti-vaccine cause.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyhan argued instead in favor of tightening exemption rules, as\u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/24/beyond-abolishing-the-personal-belief-exemption-to-raise-vaccination-rates/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/24/beyond-abolishing-the-personal-belief-exemption-to-raise-vaccination-rates/\" target=\"_blank\"> State of Health has previously described\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Requiring annual renewal of the personal belief exemption. Right now, parents need only file at kindergarten and seventh grade\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Require notarization to file the personal belief exemption form\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For religious exemptions, require a religious leader within the organization to submit a letter on your behalf\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>But in a phone call late Wednesday afternoon, Pan, the bill's co-author, stood his ground. \"We can't bury our heads and say that nothing is happening in our communities,\" he said. \"We need to have a public debate about what it means to be safe from these deadly diseases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited the 2010 whooping cough epidemic in California with more than 9,000 cases. 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But parents who support the exemption were out in full force at the hearing, testifying in opposition to the bill, just as they had turned out \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/bill-ending-personal-belief-exemption-for-vaccines-headed-for-key-vote\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/07/bill-ending-personal-belief-exemption-for-vaccines-headed-for-key-vote\" target=\"_blank\">last week \u003c/a>before the health committee. The health committee had voted 6-2 to advance the bill. Many parents said they would pull their kids out of school rather than meet a vaccine requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/30/look-up-the-vaccine-opt-out-rate-at-your-childs-school/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24970\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/04/lookup.jpg\" alt=\"lookup\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\">\u003c/a>Parents in support of the bill turned out as well, including \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/26/not-vaccinated-stay-home-from-school-says-marin-dad-of-leukemia-patient/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/01/26/not-vaccinated-stay-home-from-school-says-marin-dad-of-leukemia-patient/\" target=\"_blank\">Marin County father Carl Krawitt\u003c/a>, whose 7-year-old son is in remission from leukemia. The chemotherapy the boy received as treatment wiped out previous vaccine protection. He could not \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/13/parents-relieved-as-son-gets-first-post-leukemia-vaccines/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/13/parents-relieved-as-son-gets-first-post-leukemia-vaccines/\" target=\"_blank\">commence revaccination\u003c/a> until February, when his immune system had recovered sufficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that this is sound public health policy because it keeps our kids safe,\" Krawitt testified. \"You have a duty to legislate from solid evidence, not from fear, and keep our schools safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk of Backfire?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some supporters of vaccinations wonder if the move will backfire. Writing \u003ca title=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/why-californias-approach-to-tightening-vaccine-rules-could-backfire.html?referrer=&abt=0002&abg=1\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/upshot/why-californias-approach-to-tightening-vaccine-rules-could-backfire.html?referrer=&abt=0002&abg=1\" target=\"_blank\">in the New York Times\u003c/a> about the California bill, Dartmouth government professor Brendan Nyhan referred to the \"blundering approach state legislators there have taken\" and asserted that this \"direct attack on exemptions can rally the anti-vaccine cause.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyhan argued instead in favor of tightening exemption rules, as\u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/24/beyond-abolishing-the-personal-belief-exemption-to-raise-vaccination-rates/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/02/24/beyond-abolishing-the-personal-belief-exemption-to-raise-vaccination-rates/\" target=\"_blank\"> State of Health has previously described\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Requiring annual renewal of the personal belief exemption. 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(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Patti Neighmond,\u003c/strong> \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/04/13/398818949/the-hidden-cost-of-mammograms-more-testing-and-overtreatment\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/04/13/398818949/the-hidden-cost-of-mammograms-more-testing-and-overtreatment\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no question mammograms can save lives by detecting breast cancer early. But they can also result in unnecessary testing and treatment that can be alarming and costly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, each year the U.S. spends $4 billion on follow-up tests and treatments that result from inaccurate mammograms, scientists \u003ca href=\"http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/4/576.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">report \u003c/a>in the current issue of \u003cem>Health Affairs\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a \"stunning number,\" says the study's lead author, Dr. Kenneth Mandl, at Harvard Medical School's Center for Biomedical Informatics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandl and a colleague analyzed the insurance records of more than 700,000 women from 2011 to 2013. The women were between the ages of 40 and 59, and they all had routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer during that time period.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 11 percent of the women had \"suspicious\" mammograms and were subjected to further testing, including repeat mammograms, ultrasounds and needle biopsies. For nearly all these women — 98.6 percent — cancer was not confirmed in further testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mandl projects this percentage of false alarms to the entire female population over age 40, he estimates that the U.S. spends $2.8 billion each year on follow-up tests for suspicious results that turn out not to be cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even when cancer is detected, some of those tumors might be of low risk to the patient -- slow-growing and not likely to become invasive or life-threatening. But once suspicions are raised, Mandl says, overtreatment is often the result. \"Overtreatment is bad,\" he says. \"That's mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, in women who may not have needed any medical treatment at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, patients diagnosed with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0024042/\" target=\"_blank\">ductal carcinoma in situ\u003c/a> can face radiation, chemotherapy and even mastectomy despite the fact that the cancer is noninvasive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandl estimates that the cost of overtreatment adds up to $1.2 billion each year, resulting in a grand total of $4 billion in unnecessary spending annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just the financial cost that's a problem. When a woman receives a suspicious mammogram result, it often creates psychological stress and anxiety, Mandl says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some researchers have issues with Mandl's findings. 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