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**deethythitoth** · 08-06-2012, 12:57 AM

I think the answer lies in the type of tests each place does. In paying for the tests, you're likely to have ultrasound as well as mammogram, whereas the free ones are just mammogram, which isn't suitable for all women of the target age group (differing breast tissue density etc).

:/ - screening mammograms and diagnostic mammograms are quite different as ilago mentioned, ultrasound is only used to determine between cyst or solid mass.

So, I'm curious, what are people paying for as opposed to getting for free (that's not the thing mentioned in the OP...)?

08-06-2012, 12:57 AM	#14
deethythitoth Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 382 Senior Member	I think the answer lies in the type of tests each place does. In paying for the tests, you're likely to have ultrasound as well as mammogram, whereas the free ones are just mammogram, which isn't suitable for all women of the target age group (differing breast tissue density etc). :/ - screening mammograms and diagnostic mammograms are quite different as ilago mentioned, ultrasound is only used to determine between cyst or solid mass. So, I'm curious, what are people paying for as opposed to getting for free (that's not the thing mentioned in the OP...)?
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