Re: I thought I was dying


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MaryL <stancole1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Don't worry about it. I responded "just in case" Pat was serious
about this
joke convincing her never to have a mammogram. That's too important
to
overlook. However, I seriously doubt if this joke -- or your
message --
would have anything at all to do with Pat's decision. Just read some
of her
previous comments about her views on medical care, and I think that
would
actually be the basis of her decision.

Well, in fairness, there is *some* controversy about the effectiveness
of mammograms. They don't necessarily find all breast cancers.

I still get them, though, because I would rather be doing something than
nothing, and it's not like they've been *proven* to be useless. In fact,
mammograms do find early cancers all the time. Besides, I don't know of
any
other diagnostic device for breast cancer. So if a mammogram were to
fail
to find cancer, I'd be in the same place I would be if I hadn't had one.
Whereas if it does find it, then I'm better off, right?

--
Joyce ^..^

Exactly. It seems to me I've heard about something else that some
doctors recommend in addition to mammograms, but I've never heard of a
doctor recommending you not get one because it might not find cancer.
Every few years I end up having an ultrasound after my mammo, because I
am prone to cysts. I had my first one removed when I was 14 years old.
I had another one removed about 40 years later. In between, and since,
I've had them, but they come and go. I've had a couple of needle
biopsies, but the ultrasound can usually tell they are just cysts, so I
haven't had one of those in a long time. Now whenever they find a lump,
I just assume it's another cyst. So far it always has been. That doesn't
keep me from getting my annual mammo, though. However, my ob-gyn told me
I only need 7 more, and then I can stop getting them. It seems they
aren't necessary after you are 80.

Joy

?????!!! Really?! Why aren't they necessary after you are 80? My
grandmother lived to be 104 - so she had 24 more years after 80 in which
to possibly get breast cancer.

I guess it doesn't matter to the medical bods if you die after you are 80.
Same as myself, if I seem to be clear of cancer after 5 years, I will be
discharged as a success. We all know it doesn't always work like that.
My colleague had breast cancer, had a mastectomy, and chemo, was declared a
success. Ten years later it was back, in her bones, and she is now dead at
the age of 49.




Nose Kisses,

CatNipped



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