Cancer All Over Your Lady Parts

WTF, panel of experts? R U serious?

If you haven't heard yet, earlier this week a panel of absurdly obese experts gave the recommendation that women should not get mammogram exams (that's for the boobies) as early or as often as previously recommended. Doctors and women (especially womyn) were confused and, more importantly, angry.

"Why?" they kept screaming until all hours of the night.

During this week-long debate I thought to myself, "Hey, you can still get those tests as often as you like, little lady. It's okay. They can't stop you from walking into a patient waiting room and demanding that someone squish your boobies in between two cold sheets of glass."

Then, today, another panel of slightly-less obese experts gave the recommendation that women should not get pap smears (that's for the kooter) as early or as often as previously recommended. These experts claim that the research was in the making for the past few years and regretted the timing of the recommendation. Surprisingly, doctors and women (even womyn) were mostly in agreement with this.

Getting tested for cancer later in life and not as often as before? At the end of the day when I look back at these two studies I can't help thinking "Cancer lobby, you win again, you sly devil."