Re: fibrocystic beast
- From: "fresh~horses" <fresh~horses@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Dec 2005 17:33:17 -0800
bae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In article <fC9of.37628$tV6.31128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> REP <rep@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >In article <1134633630.837646.115410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "amanda" <amanda772005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> O'Hush wrote:
> >> > My guess is, the big risk is it'll hurt you so much you'll never get
> >> > another one.
> >>
> >> What do you mean? Never get another mammogram? I haven't had for 2 year
> >> after moving her due to crazy things in the family. Planning to get one
> >> soon.
> >
> >Mammograms aren't nearly that painful, even with a cyst. Uncomfortable,
> >yes; but not actually painful.
>
> I thought so too, and had had several uncomfortable but not painful
> mammograms, and figured that people who complained about how painful
> they are just had low pain thresholds. Then I had one that really hurt.
>
> I think some technicians just have bad technique. So if a person has
> a painful mammogram, they shouldn't assume the next one is going to
> be painful as well. But if you have fibrocystic breasts, it's probably
> a good idea to schedule your mammograms, if possible, for the time of
> month when your breasts are least tender.
>
> At any rate, a few minutes of pain is worth it if it means detecting a
> cancer at an early, curable stage.
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<<At any rate, a few minutes of pain is worth it if it means detecting
a
cancer at an early, curable stage.>>
I don't think, with the best treatments available today, that the above
statement is accurate.
"While 96 percent of women diagnosed at a localized stage are alive
five years after diagnosis, this does not mean that these women have
been cured of breast cancer.1
Being cancer-free for five years following diagnosis is accurately
considered a cure for some cancers. But breast cancer is an exception:
it can and does recur at any time, though the likelihood of recurrence
is highest in the first two years following treatment, and declines
over time.
Breast cancer awareness campaigns urging women to have yearly
mammograms are based on the premise that breast cancer found early can
always be effectively treated. But the complex biology of breast cancer
means that women diagnosed with "early" breast cancer fall into one
of three groups. One group has very aggressive disease that, no matter
how small it is when it is found, cannot be effectively treated with
the therapies that are currently available. These women will die of
breast cancer eventually, no matter what treatment they are given,
unless they die of something else first.
Another group of women diagnosed with breast cancer has a type of
either non-aggressive (indolent) invasive disease or a form of DCIS
(ductal carcinoma in situ) that will never be life threatening.
The third group has a type of breast cancer that responds to currently
available treatments. Finding breast cancer earlier does increase the
likelihood that treatment will work for women in this group."
{From Breast Cancer Action}
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