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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (11948)	11/28/2009 8:40:18 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

one is 42 years of age.. stage four breast cancer, six years ago. no history. she is at late stage , out of control. i believe she found a lump. the other is fifty , both breast removed about five years ago, no family history of cancer. no sign of any problems in last five years since operation. i believe she had a mammogram which identified problem. i had secretary with dozens of cysts removed too. she was scared stiff. she lost her mother and her sister to breast cancer. She took vacation to go to west coast to a doctor to have breasts removed and rebuilt.. But when she got there she couldn't go through with operation. cannot update you further, I heard , she was murdered a several years later in her apartment, found locked and never resolved.

To: Lane3 who wrote (11948)	11/28/2009 3:44:36 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I would think mammograms could taper off after the early 70s. My mother died of breast cancer but I will probably not continue annual mammograms much beyond the age of her diagnosis. I think stopping mammo's is a mistake. Granted, no one lives forever, but suffering and dying from breast cancer is a hard way to go. Mammo's allow early detection - and therefore, high cure rates after moderate intervention. No reason not to include older people who are still reasonably healthy and could be treated, even into their 80's and beyond.