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on Breast Cancer Screening
I can't agree more with your last paragraph - is it really better to not "scare" 20-50 women out of 2000, and have 1 woman die? I think not!
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on Breast Cancer Screening
I was 40 years old when I found a lump. I had not had a mammogram because I was pregnant, and then breast feeding. It was a stage 2 cancer, and I had a lumpectomy, radiation and chemotherapy. I am lucky that I had insurance coverage, and could afford the best care. 5 years later I have been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer and I am dying. This is an extremely rare outcome when the breast cancer is diagnosed early, as happens when it is found by mammogram. While it wouldn't have changed my story, how many more women will die if they wait to get their mammograms? Only 1 in 2000 say the researchers, but do you want to be that 1? Do you want your friend, or your sister, to be that 1? DON'T FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES! And we have to find a way to keep the insurance companies from adopting them as well.
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