An Oversold Weapon Against Breast Cancer

Townhall.com ^ | February 16, 2014 | Steve Chapman

[cuban leaf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvzDHGLEUyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=givgNbs8amE

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gerson+diet

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.

[TigersEye]

You’re saying that they started this study 25 years ago to create propaganda for 0bamaCare?

[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.

[yldstrk]

Cuban leaf, Gerson is a crank and has cured nothing.

Yes, you can cure a lot of stuff by plain old fasting and praying and I wouldn’t give one thin dime to the medical professions cancer “cures”

[heylady]

I can remember having a conversation 25 years ago concerning the use of percentages while developing hospital policies. What test we did , how often we did them all seemed to depend on the “percentages of positive outcomes”. Unfortunately, according to the administration, some patients would fall through the cracks.

[a fool in paradise]

The meme for men and women has been to push off cancer screening another 5-10 years. Canada has its own socialized medicine, doesn’t need to do this just to prop up Obamacare.

[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.

[dangerdoc]

My mother died because she had a normal mammogram. Her doctor told her she could stop worrying about the lump in her breast because the test was normal.

We know that the mammogram helps some and does some harm to others. What we should be doing is figuring out how to identify the two groups.

[workerbee]

What I know is that the efficacy of mammograms was never in question ... until we were faced with ObeyMeCare. About a year before it was finally signed we started hearing, oh, nobody really needs one yearly.... oh, 40 year olds should just wait til they’re 50 for a baseline.... oh, maybe insurance companies should drop coverage for annual screens...

All ju$t coinkydink, I’m $ure.

[gemoftheocean]

“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.”

whoa. Skippy, whatever mammography is —it is FAR from “painless.” I want you to strip naked. Now, put your “member” on a flat surface. Next, take a large book and put it over your “member.” Next lean on that book as hard as you can for a few minutes, then get back to us how “painless” that is.

[gemoftheocean]

“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.”

whoa. Skippy, whatever mammography is —it is FAR from “painless.” I want you to strip naked. Now, put your “member” on a flat surface. Next, take a large book and put it over your “member.” Next lean on that book as hard as you can for a few minutes, then get back to us how “painless” that is.

[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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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The problem was not the mammogram but that she had a bad doctor.

I had one who told me ovarian cysts were normal and I should quit complaining about the pain.

I went to another doctor. He had me in surgery in six weeks.

Too much damage had been done by my prior doc's cranial rectal inversion to be totally corrected but at least I didn't die.

[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.