Compare the breast cancer survival statistics in the UK where mammograms don’t start until age 50 and are done only every three years with the US where annual mammograms starting at age 40 are the norm. A woman with breast cancer in the US has a 95% chance of being alive in 5 years. In the UK only 78% survive 5 years. Obamacare death panels are pushing for mammograms every other year starting at age 50 and are telling us it won’t make any “statistical difference” in survival. Ditto for annual PSA tests.
British people tend not to go to the doctor AT ALL, much less annuals. There is a huuuuuge cultural difference between Americans and the British on this subject. I direct everyone to Sarah Lyall’s “Field Guild to the English,” in which she has an hilarious and poignant chapter on English people’s attitudes towards doctors and dentists.
If they gave us the truth on risk of breast CA, which they will not, as well as of cervical CA, which they refuse to, then they could focus on people at higher risk.
Then they could schedule these things more efficiently
But they won’t do that. it would bring attention to the high cost to the payers of health care, of promiscuity and it would deter some women from risking their health by being promiscuous
Abortion is a risk factor in breast cancer. It is in the same class of carcinogen as is smoking cigarettes.
Birth control pills are in the same class of cancer causes as are cigarettes
They don’t tell you this
It is not mentioned
A promiscuous lifestyle is a risk factor in cervical cancer
Married women or women who are not sexually active until they are married and then monogamous women are simply in a much different risk category for contracting cancer and other diseases from now what are considered normal women, what used to be considered promiscuous women
Men are not affected by any of this
Women have come such a long way. Not only are they now free to be treated like sex objects, they are treated by the medical community as such.
They are not advised on the risks to their health they are engaging in
But this information is all easily obtained from the Center for disease control