[cuban leaf]

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Since I heard about this years ago, and my wife recently acquired a friend who was cured of stage 4 cancer just last year through this treatment alone, I have even less respect for the pink ribbon than I used to.

It costs an average of $850,000 to die of cancer in the US. Or you can survive for almost nothing.

[Mercat]

Good to know. I’ve spent most of the past thirty years feeling guilty about not doing mammograms or at least not very often. I’ve maybe had five and I’m 66. Regular breast exams however I think are good. Once a week and then my regular doc and my gynecologist each do one so that’s two or three times a year. Instead, do the colonopthingie. My docs also want me to do bone density testing but when we talk about what they would do if I had issues, they admit that the course of meds and supplements I take now would stay the same. Try to do 30 minutes of exercise per day (and if you try daily you’ll succeed about 5 times a week) and eat well. Do all that and you’ll die some day. LOL

[ChiMark]

My understanding is this research is seriously flawed. Given that this comes out of Canada ....

[Jim from C-Town]

All I know is that a mammogram my wife had after our last son in April showed a very small lump in a milk duct. A biopsy later showed a malignancy that we quickly treated with surgery to remove her breast. She had reconstructive surgery and is cancer free. Early detection saved her much pain from radiation and chemotherapy.

That mammogram saved my 42 year old wife and mother to my five children. Get your mammogram. It is painless and paid for by insurance.

This is more propaganda to limit the cost of health care to those countries with government funded health care. Dead people don’t need health care and subsequently give a large chunk of their estate to the government.

[goodwithagun]

If you like your boobies, you can keep your boobies.

[The Great RJ]

I saw a discussion of this study on Fox News this morning by Drs Samadi and Rosen. While they said the study was interesting you had to consider that it looked at survival rates not detection rates and that the study was done up to 25 years ago when mammogram technology was not what it is today. They reasoned that it is still better to detect breast cancer as early as possible when the cancers are small and that manual exams cannot detect breast cancer as small as now is possible with the new technology. Dr Rosen made an interesting observation when he has his patients schedule a yearly mammogram they often procrastinate to where it is 18 months before they actually get one done. Scheduling every two years often meant that patients would not get the screening done for several more years.

The five-year survival rates for all forms of breast cancer in the US is 85 per cent. However in the UK with their socialized medicine system five year survival is under 74 per cent. In the UK their socialized medicine system allows mammograms every three years and don't start until age 50 compared to annual mammograms starting at age 40 in the US. If the breast cancer is caught early (stage 1) an American woman has a 97 per cent chance of being alive five years after diagnosis. In Britain with their socialized medicine system, five year survival for stage 1 breast cancer is only 78 per cent.

I fear these studies will be used by Obamacare bean counters to stop annual mammograms by saying see it doesn't make any difference in this large study, but ignore the details and the very high rates of survival and early rates of detection under our current system.

[toothfairy86]

Many women with fibrocystic breasts get false positives with mammograms. They should also have a sonogram. Certain ethnic groups are especially susceptible to aggressive breast cancers prior to the age of 40. They would be dead if they waited to get mammograms until 50. I think that women should be allowed to get a “baseline” mammogram at any age, especially if there’s a family history. Actually, I’ve paid for several mammograms out of my own pocket, because I had a skin cancer on my breast, and I didn’t want the government telling me when I’m “allowed” to have a mammogram.

[reed13k]

Standard mammo couldn’t detect my wife’s lump ultrasound did only other option would have been MRI - we biopsied off the ultrasound and are now 9 years from the event.

[Tired of Taxes]

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[GILTN1stborn]

Pap tests are only needed every two years now and PSAs are not useful. Recommendations for Colonoscopies are morphing too. IMHO it has everything to do with the cost.

[steve86]

How should we feel about a health care system that has long put so much faith in such a flawed instrument? At least a little foolish.

Pretty much the whole article applies to colonoscopies as well.

A very, very small number actually avoid early death because of the procedure. The incidence of colorectal cancer if you do nothing is only 25/100,000. So only some fraction of 25 could be saved even if 100,000 go through the useless unpleasantness of colonoscopy prep and procedure.

[CodeToad]

Obamacare is about not paying for care so of course they want women to back off getting care.

[jwalsh07]

Flaws in BMJ mammogram study.

Just keeping it real. People should make their own healthcare decisions absent government intervention and/or coercion.