Posted on 10/20/2015 9:35:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Just one of many policies I think we are going to have coming from the Washington bean counters.
No, there are too many tests being done with the risks outweighing the benefits. I know these developments coincide with the institution of the horrible Obamacare, but this is something wise doctors have been discussing for years. Doctors have forgotten the part about first do no harm.
Sorry, but we were sold a Bill of Goods. We were supposed to get MORE Preventative Medicine screenings with Obamacare, not FEWER. I can tell you that, when it comes to Pap Smears, the ‘no smears after age 65 unless you have symptoms’ is designed to make sure that women over 65 will surely die of their cancers instead of our Government having to pay to treat them. Cells frequently shed well before there are symptoms of genital cancers. But if you wait until you have symptoms, then the cancer is going to be further advanced when it is caught and, subsequently, much more difficult to treat. Please wake up and realize that your Government doesn’t really care about your health, they just want to control all those health care dollars.
She died at 50 years old. Diagnosed a year before, and it was already too late. The double mastectomy didn't do any good, and it just made her feel like there was less to live for.
She was, ahem, very well built. She had also become pretty heavy by that point in her life; prior to that she had a figure to stop freeway traffic.
She was brilliant, tall, witty, a modern dancer, a rock-n-roll drummer, a mother, a wife, and had a sharp sarcastic sense of humor. She also had decades of life left to live. She was from Texas and proud of it.
She didn't like mammograms, and put the process off, over and over.
I miss ya, B. You were a good, loving friend and a helluva lady. 50 is way too young to die.
“At least one study has showed that many women suffer intense anguish after they get called for a follow-up mammogram when a radiologist has spotted something suspicious.”
And how does that compare to the anguish of being told “too bad we didn’t find this a 18 months ago before it metastasized, but we didn’t look because you were only 43”?
“No, there are too many tests being done with the risks outweighing the benefits.”
Mamograms are basically risk free. This is more of the collective being more important than the individual. Because the hard cold fact is that many women will die from this because their cancer will not be found in time. The risk is that a few will get false alarms that take a few days to clear up. A VERY small price to pay against your very life.
This new guideline does not make any sense to me. MANY women have had this cancer in their late 30’s or early 40’s and now it won’t be caught in time. I shouldn’t talk as I’m at the age to get one but I don’t want to cause I heard it’s painful and I’m very sensitive on top of it. There’s no breast cancer in my family anyways.
They can do mammograms , read them give results and do follow up all in one visit. Lazy. Don’t care. Cost containment.
But if she wanted a sex change operation, her policy covers it. I'm not kidding.
Obamacare has made a mess of health insurance and health care that will only get worse. And more people will die as a result.
Mammography is extremely painful and can help spread cancer with the intense pressure. Believe me, if men were tested by squeezing their cojones in a vice, insurance would cover a less invasive test within months.
I agree with you that mammograms are outdated. I don’t understand with all the money raised for breast cancer, why they haven’t done more work on that. I remember reading they were outdated in 1999. By now, thermograms, or something else, should be standard.
My doc told me back a few years ago this would happen. He mentioned Obamacare would force these later diagnostics to save overall costs. Same happened for colon cancer screenings.
My wife works in this field and she’s been saying this for 15 years that mamos don’t help as much as people think. It was always a political issue more than a healthcare issue. It has been known for a long time that the long term scientific objectives (extending life) have always been outweighed by the optics of pink ribbons and politicians leading political rallies masked as “cancer walks” promising to spend more of other people’s money.
>The researchers said at the time that 1 million women may
>have been overdiagnosed, which means they were needlessly
>treated, not to mention emotionally distressed.
“Overdiagnosed” = given effective screening for breast cancer
They are doing the same with prostate cancer. They want to do away with PSA testing. They do not want us to live too long, especially when we have outlived our economic use usefulness.
Death panels at work.
Yes, she’s right. There have been huge studies that don’t make the mainstream (in the USA) because they contradict Big Cancer. Manmograms do not save lives, period. They find all kinds of harmless cancers and precancers and then the poor women is browbeaten into treatment she never needed, and finally the treatment destroys her immune system and she dies earlier than she would have if she did nothing, and not always from cancer. 10% of the people dx’ed with cancer from mammograms are helped or had their lives lengthened. That just isn’t good enough to push on everyone.
Plus the test is unnecessarily invasive and painful.
One of the most telling studies about the power of the cancer machine is one that tracked a woman’s decision whether to treat based on a doctor telling her that the mammogram picked up carcinoma in duct situ either saying that is spotted some abnormal cells, or saying that it was cancer. The poor women decided much more often for drastic treatment and surgery when the C word was used, when “abnormal cells” that might never cause any problems would be very true.
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