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Just one of many policies I think we are going to have coming from the Washington bean counters.
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”?
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.
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.
>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