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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest issue is the number of women treated with toxic drugs, surgery and radiation due to fear of lawsuits (and for the woman, fear of death).

In addition, mammography has such a high sue-rate that doctors add more tests to protect themselves. And who can blame them?

It's such a double-edged sword.[/quote]
I just stay away from the scam.[/quote]

I have posted skepticism of mammograms (though I also pointed out that breast MRIs are an excellent tool for women with dense breasts) but I can't abide the conspiracy theories here. The toxic drugs, surgery and radiation saved my life when I was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer. The treatments suck but for most women they work and they're the best we have. And the only reason we have them at all is because of the breast cancer movement started in the 1970s by WOMEN themselves who were sick of the fact that there were no effective treatments available, just, essentially, the luck of the drawer.[/quote]

I posted early in about the lack of confidence in the current screening tools for dense breasts. MRIs provided me with ZERO peace of mind that there wasn't a hidden cancer in my non-affected breast.  MRIs have a high rate of false positives. I am baffled why you keep noting (falsely, I think) that they are an "excellent" tool. Can you point to any studies showing this? That is a genuine question. I encourage you to jump over to the breast cancer forum and read the stories of women who elected mastectomy only to find out an invasive cancer was in that same stage 0 breast.

Threads like this frustrate me because many women who have not walked in these shoes judge the choices of BC survivors. And, no, I don't distinguish between the stage 0's and the higher stages among us.  You have no idea if you would choose to be over treated until you hear those dreaded words...until you then look at your spouse...until you look at your children...your loved ones...consider your future. You just don't know! All you get is probabilities from doctors, nothing more.  Sure you can go the additional screening route and have alternating ultrasounds, MRIs or mammograms every six months or every three months if that makes you feel better. Then add in a biopsy or two to go along with those evey year. That option did not work for me. I had had enough trauma, real trauma being scanned and biopsied after diagnosis. I even posted back then about the horrific biopsy where a nurse casually stated, "We must've blown through a nerve!"  The pain...the blood...OMG!

I love a discussion that empowers us to be better informed about the latest data, thus allowing an individual to make the best choice for her.  But can that be had in the absence of the "tsk tsk" finger shaking from those who have never been diagnosed. [/quote]

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