Posted on 05/21/2021 12:13:00 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
With COVID-vaccination programs rolling and life heading toward greater normalcy, many in the United States are thinking about healthcare unrelated to the pandemic. And they should be—understandably, many aspects of health maintenance took a significant hit in the last year.
I can understand this issue from a personal perspective. I’m a breast cancer survivor and am supposed to have two breast screenings per year—a mammogram and an MRI. I did manage a (somewhat delayed) mammogram last summer; but the MRI that should have followed six months later is still pending. I wanted to schedule it for early March—but I got my first shot of the COVID vaccine at the end of February, just as I was seeing news about how the vaccines can sometimes cause swollen lymph nodes under the arm, mimicking one potential sign of breast cancer in screening tests. Now I’m trying to walk the line between getting the screening as soon as possible and making sure it’s free of interference.
A recent national study found that screenings for colorectal, breast and prostate cancer dropped off during the early pandemic months. They increased later in the year, but the overall numbers never caught up to those of the year before. The drop-off “translated to an estimated absolute deficit across the entire U.S. population in screening for 3.9 million women (breast), 3.8 million men and women (colorectal), and 1.6 million men (prostate), for a total deficit of 9.4 million in 2020 compared with 2019,” the report found. SurvivorNet canvassed major cancer centers across the United States, and our reporting shows that advanced stage cancer diagnoses have increased because of delays in screening due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cancer will not find a cure, too much money involved in Cancer research and cancer treatments $$$. My wife’s cancer treatments are billed at $32-37 thousand every month.
A relative by marriage was not allowed to have cancer treatments until he tested negative. He did a few tests, and showed them the negative result (the others were positive).
“Cancer will not find a cure, too much money involved in Cancer research and cancer treatments $$$. My wife’s cancer treatments are billed at $32-37 thousand every month.”
We had a friend undergoing treatment visiting us from out of state. One bottle of whatever treatment she was taking was 20 grand. I told here to make sure that she took it home because if she didn’t I would have to fly it back personally with a briefcase handcuffed to my wrist!
Best of hopeful wishes to your wife and you, BTW.
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