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Related: About this forumOur Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/our-feel-good-war-on-breast-cancer.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&I'm female, never liked the color pink, and am decidedly sick of it now.
Nay
(12,051 posts)a Stage I, so I had some minimal surgery and 16 days of radiation. If I had not had my yearly mammogram, I would never have known that soon.
Celebration
(15,812 posts)The author of it originally felt the same way.....................now she doesn't.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)When does the treatment become more of a problem than the problem?
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)a lot of my own speculations.
My mother had a mastectomy at age 80. She's had several lumpectomies over the years - she was very private so I am unsure of the details. Did she ever really need surgery? Did she really need the mastectomy, something she dreaded ever since nurse's training in the 50's? Did the physical and emotional stress of that operation actually shorten her life? (She passed on two years later.) I will never know.
I myself had 3 chest x-rays over the last year for lung problems. I think I will avoid any more radiation.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Expect to get flamed, but this deserves wider exposure!
mopinko
(70,127 posts)what it should be called is-
all the amazing shit we didn't know about breast cancer until we started widespread screening for breast cancer.
Celebration
(15,812 posts)mopinko
(70,127 posts)this writer seems to think that we should have already known the things we have learned.