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Date Posted: 18:00:42 03/08/06 Wed
Author: amadaun
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

**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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[> Re: Help The Breast Cancer site -- tg, 18:15:48 03/08/06 Wed [1]

All I'm saying is there is nothing that has been proven to prevent cancer. Someone who smokes probably has a higher chance of developing a lung disease and someone who has never smoked in their life has also gotten cancer. (?)

****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?

Well, for one I'm Canadian so when it comes to health coverage I got it and I've gotten a mammogram. I also know there may be something better than a mammogram down the road but, I live in the here and now and it's not considered sub-standard. You consider it that but, the medical world doesn't.

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