(RTTNews) - Breast cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge told People magazine that she is concerned with the new recommendation that has been given by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concerning mammograms.

"We have gotten ourselves into a big, deep hole in the way that we look at healthcare," Etheridge, 48, said at the American Music Awards last week. "We are in a system where they get money when we're sick. That's never going to work for us."

The Task Force recommended that women in their 40s should stop getting annual mammograms until they are in their 50s, when it becomes more necessary.
"When someone says, 'You don't need a mammogram until you're 50,' you take charge of that. I don't trust any of that," Etheridge said in response.

The singer was diagnosed with breast cancer in October of 2004.

by RTT Staff Writer

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