Wear pink sh** - it helps the fight against breast cancer

[boutons_deux]

a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) concluded annual mammography screening significantly increases breast cancer risk in women with a genetic or familial predisposition to the disease

among women who receive a decade of annual mammograms, more than half of those women will be called and told the gut-wrenching news that their tests are positive when they are actually cancer-free. The victims of false-positive results -- not a malignancy -- are then subjected to more tests. In fact, one in twelve of these women will undergo invasive, potentially breast-scarring biopsy surgery.

http://www.naturalnews.com/033903_ma...#ixzz1bKRN0PBP

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Huge controversies about screening for breast and prostate cancers.

Susan Komen has partnered with junk food companies (healthy diet is one of the tactics to reduce risk), and refuses to admit that BPA is associated with breast cancer (iow, taking the chemical industry's position, denying the research).

"It's A Business"

[jag]

pretty lame thing to complain about it. being insecure about your sexuality can be rought,huh jag?

If I were so insecure about my sexuality would I be wearing pink bikini briefs right now to support breast cancer awareness? I also have on a red bandana to support aids awareness, purple elbow pads to support polio awareness and a rainbow colored anklet to support sexual awareness.

[mrsmaalox]

among women who receive a decade of annual mammograms, more than half of those women will be called and told the gut-wrenching news that their tests are positive when they are actually cancer-free. The victims of false-positive results -- not a malignancy -- are then subjected to more tests. In fact, one in twelve of these women will undergo invasive, potentially breast-scarring biopsy surgery.

http://www.naturalnews.com/033903_ma...#ixzz1bKRN0PBP

This is completely misleading, of course.

The "annual" mammogram is not a diagnostic tool, it is a screening tool. There is no false positive result likely (but it does rarely happen)----either a mass is present or it is not.

A malignancy is positively diagnosed only with a more advanced type of diagnostic mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy. Being informed of a positive result on a screening mammogram is not being told you have cancer/malignancy, it is being told there is a mass that is possibly malignant and must be investigated. Having the diagnostic exams completed and the results being negative does NOT indicate a "false-positive" of the screening exam.

[ashbeeigh]

There are about 75% as many deaths from prostate cancer as breast cancer. When's the last time someone told you to wear something to support prostate cancer sufferers? For that matter, colon & rectal cancer claims about 15% more lives. Ever see football players wearing any colors for that cause?

Cancer of all types sucks. I lost my father to lung cancer (which claims more lives than all three of the cancers above). There can be no doubt, however, that corporate America has latched onto breast cancer as a way to sell pink crap. Yes, they donate a portion - a SMALL one - of their profits, but rest assured they're laughing all the way to the bank.

This is where I stand with it. There are plenty of other conditions that get attention, but it's like a day or week. There's wear red for heart disease, wear purple for alzheimer's awareness and I think wear blue for autism awareness. I understand that it gets a lot of press, but there are so many other things out there that need to have attention drawn to it. But, that's my little opinion.

[mrsmaalox]

I think it may be because this country has such an obsession with breasts in general

[cantthinkofanything]

This is where I stand with it. There are plenty of other conditions that get attention, but it's like a day or week. There's wear red for heart disease, wear purple for alzheimer's awareness and I think wear blue for autism awareness. I understand that it gets a lot of press, but there are so many other things out there that need to have attention drawn to it. But, that's my little opinion.

I've found that it's much easier for me to convince a date to let me check her for breast cancer than for her to give me a prostate exam.

[boutons_deux]

This is completely misleading, of course.

The "annual" mammogram is not a diagnostic tool, it is a screening tool. There is no false positive result likely (but it does rarely happen)----either a mass is present or it is not.

A malignancy is positively diagnosed only with a more advanced type of diagnostic mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy. Being informed of a positive result on a screening mammogram is not being told you have cancer/malignancy, it is being told there is a mass that is possibly malignant and must be investigated. Having the diagnostic exams completed and the results being negative does NOT indicate a "false-positive" of the screening exam.

the women mentioned are receiving annual SCREENING mgrams, and 50% had FPs. You're playing with words.

Screened FP means "something looks hmmm?, so we need to do more investigation/diagnosis" which in those cases confirmed the positive was false.

And then there is the problem of FN, where the lady has cancer but was not detected.

Every person thinks only about themselves, but policy makers deal on the of NTT, see wikipedia.

iow, what is the NTT to detect one true positive and/or save one life?

btw, PAP policy recommendation this week came out as once per 3 years.