A new study came out in the New England Journal of Medicine this past week arguing that mammograms cause an over-diagnosis of breast cancer. Excuse me...what? Are you kidding me? Click the link below to read the article.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-breast-cancer-screening-20121122,0,6613438.story
I am going to take a wild guess here and say that 1) the people doing to study are guys and 2) they have never know anyone close to them who was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Cancer is cancer no matter what stage it is found and treated. If I had gone in and had my radiologist tell me "Well, it's a small tumor and it may or may not turn out to grow into cancer" I would have still told them to get it the hell out of me. I am not going to take a chance with my life on a "may or may not" discussion about cancer. I'm pretty sure 100% of women/men who have that conversation with their radiologist would not want to take a chance on their life. If my tumor would have been found through an early mammogram, that would have meant I could have kept my boobs, not had chemo and not be on medicine and shots for 5 years. Um, yeah, I am pretty sure that would have been a good thing.
Man, I am one ticked off chick today.
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