Why shouldn't I get a breast ultrasound?

"Although use of ultrasound rather than MRI as a supplement to mammographic screening in intermediate-risk women with dense breasts might seem appealing, the authors point out that low reimbursement rates and the shortage of qualified breast sonographers could make this strategy difficult to implement."

— Andrew M. Kaunitz, MD

This quote from the April 4 JAMA http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/13.toc was recently sent to me.  

Numerous studies (see  http://drwinsett.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-about-whole-breast-ultrasound-and.html) have demonstrated that supplemental whole breast ultrasound finds breast cancers that mammograms miss, including the study in this same journal where women had supplemental whole breast ultrasound if they had dense breast tissue and one other risk factor.  But that was the comment published in the journal.


So, if you find a willing and experienced doctor who is qualified to do the breast ultrasound, wouldn't you get one if you were at increased risk?  


Together we can prevent 75,000 breast cancer cases each year.