Some good doctors don’t know how they feel about the new mammogram and pap smear guidelines, and neither do I.  I do know that I’ve probably had more radiation than I needed to, many nights of anxiety from false positives, and many extra procedures that I didn’t need.  But that’s all hindsight, which would’ve been reversed with one actual diagnosis of breast or cervical cancer.  Let’s see how it shakes out.  Here’s a quote from http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9103988 from reknowned breast specialist Dr. Susan Love “These new recommendations are long overdue. Most countries do not support mammography screening under 50 and do it every other year after 50 in their government-sponsored screening programs,” said Dr. Susan Love, founder of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.   “I hope that the insurers will change reimbursement, because it is probably the only way that women will be spared the extra radiation exposure of too many mammograms,” Love said. “Since our system pays the radiologist, hospital or mammography center and biopsying surgeon by the more they do, there is no incentive for this to come from the medical profession.”