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Date Posted: 18:15:48 03/08/06 Wed
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

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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[> Re: Help The Breast Cancer site -- amadaun, 19:04:52 03/08/06 Wed [1]

***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.****

Its not down the road, its here already. Thermography,-computerized heat mapping, and Electrical Impedance Imaging are two new techniques.

Surely anything that doesn't cause the very problem it seeks to prevent, would be a better option.

****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****
Some people who don't smoke get lung cancer. Christopher Reeve's wife apparently never smoked, but died recently from lung cancer.But how can we know what other substances she may have been exposed to, that could have caused this cancer? Also, she was probably under incredible stress looking after him for all those years, and stress is a major cause of illness.

I am surprised that you can discount health status as an aid to prevent cancer. Just go to the National Cancer Institutes website and read about what they say are risk factors for cancer. Carcinogens in food, pesticide exposure,stress,radiation, hormones,viruses- and these guys are only telling you half the story.

I suppose that if you think there is no way to prevent cancer, then you can just pretend its some kind of lottery, where a random person 'hits the jackpot'.

I like to think there is a choice, and to actively strive to avoid practices which encourage cancer.

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