screening mammography for women between 50 and 74. only every two years. yet, that may absolutely not be enough if you are someone with a likelihood of getting breast cancer much earlier. right. one of the things that or en stein s piece reminded me of was the self-breast exam campaign that was launched in my college dormitory freshman year. in our dormitory communal showers there was one of those cards that hangs on the showerhead reminding you to do a breast exam in the shower. at 18 years old, women really don t need to be doing self-breast exams. that year my mother was dying of breast cancer. the last thing i needed when i took a shower was to be reminded of my breast cancer risk. so there s a sort of perversity of that campaign insofar as the only people who are really responding to that campaign are the people who actually don t need to be reminded. so to me that steaeems like a s of waste of resources.