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Date Posted: 19:58:00 03/07/06 Tue
Author: tg
Subject: Re: Help The Breast Cancer site
In reply to: tg 's message, "Help The Breast Cancer site" on 18:26:39 03/07/06 Tue

Here's the thing, how many woman find out they have a lump in their breast with a mammogram? It sometimes isn't always detected but, most of the time it is. I can understand where you are saying "Breast cancer Societies would be better off telling women how to prevent breast cancer, by avoiding pesticides, hormones and other carcingens" but when did staying healthy prevent anyone from cancer? It never has, there are healthy people out there who are doing what you say and they are also excersing and eating well and they still get (breast) cancer. When I hear people say don't get a mammogram or give yourself a self-exam because it doesn't work, I say your wrong and it has worked. Most woman who get the disease are in there 30's.
Also this is a free mammogram to woman who can't afford it, this is the only thing they are recieving, it's just a click. If you don't want to that's fine.

I also think you are biased towards that kind of medical treatment, and you know that most people who get cancer are treated with radiation and chemotherapy, so it may be your perogative to avoid that thing but, it's not thiers.

I guess you don't have a microwave in your home, that has radiation.

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[> Re: Help The Breast Cancer site -- amadaun, 18:00:42 03/08/06 Wed [1]

**When I hear people say don't get a mammogram or give yourself a self-exam because it doesn't work, I say your wrong and it has worked. Most woman who get the disease are in there 30's**

But giving a mammogram to a woman in her thirties is unlikely to help- because young women have denser breast tissue, and the mammogram can't be accurately interpreted by the doctor. In fact, you could have cancer, and the doctor may well miss it. You would be better off with a self examination, [which I did not at any time say was ineffective.]And you would have saved yourself the exposure to the radiation, which as we all know, causes cancer.

**** but when did staying healthy prevent anyone from cancer***
So you think that smoking a pack of cigarettes a day would not contribute to the cancer risk?
Good health is your best bet to avoid any type of disease. Just eating well and exercising is not enough. There is so much more to health than that.
****Also this is a free mammogram to woman who can't afford it****
So because the women are poor, they should be given a substandard, possibly dangerous procedure? Then, those of us who are more wealthy, can feel better and say that we have helped them?

****I also think you are biased towards that kind of medical treatment...***
No, I'm biased against it. I'm biased against any kind of treatment which does not benefit the people it is being given to, and which enables people to sit back and forget about the many ways in which disease can be prevented.

Prevention is always better than cure.

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