Re: [cancercured] Re: How Accurate Is Your Mammogram Reading?

Hi Marti,

Thank you! Thank you for this excellent post.

Yes, there is a risk in having a mammogram. But it can save lives, too.
Heck, my mother never went to the doctor and so never had any tests
run, so of course she died of end-stage cancer only weeks after we
finally dragged her to a doctor for diagnosis. And, quite frankly,
sitting in the sun and eating fresh food will NOT keep everyone from
getting cancer. Especially breast cancer. Especially ovarian cancer.

These one-size-fits-all articles annoy me and they do more damage to
"our cause" of getting the alternative word out there.

Each woman will have to decide for herself what risk is too great. I'm
personally very, very grateful I had a mammo that showed my cancer at
stage 0.

The old thought is that if a woman is going to die of breast cancer,
she'll die of it no matter what. Well, that kind of makes any kind of
treatment - traditional or alternative - a waste of time, does it not?
I had a nurse practitioner at my gyn tell me years ago that once you
have breast cancer, you die from breast cancer. And yet, there are 30
year survivors out there.

So, for those of you men out there who keep posting about how dangerous
mammos are, I have good news for you...you don't have to have one.

ar

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Arlyn Grant
arlynsg@123mail.org

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